Starhawk Quotes

My idea of magic doesn't have much to do with stage tricks and illusions. The whole world abounds in magic.

Magic frightens people almost as much as it intrigues them.

I don't know that I have a fascination with witches per se - well, maybe I just have a fascination with everything that's weird.

The genre of fantasy is about magic and occult characters.

Oh oh it's magic, when I'm with you, oh oh it's magic, you know it's true, got a hold on you.

There's a little bit of magic in every box!

I have a magical work in a magical way. I give magical service for magical pay.

I don't think that there is anything that is really magical unless it has a terrifying quality.

There's a special gut-check moment the first time you write a scene in which somebody casts a spell.

We must not let daylight in upon the magic.

Magic provides a way of still having room for possibilities, an unlimited sense of what the world offers. Magic is always there when science is found wanting.

I did magic all my life from the time I was 12, and I like to tap into the magic from history.

When it draws near to witching time of night.

From a young age I was obsessed with the mysterious, the esoteric, the paranormal.

I am a fan of magic and fantasy, particularly when it's grounded in reality.

Indubitably, magic is one of the subtlest and most difficult of the sciences and arts. There is more opportunity for errors of comprehension, judgment and practice than in any other branch of physics.

For me, a great fantasy is real people, a world I recognise, human struggle and magic. You've got to have magic to make a fantasy work. But I like my magic to be subtle. I don't want magic coming out of the hands of wizards. I want it to be pervading, sinister somehow.

Magic is the mysteries into which not everyone is so lucky, or unlucky, as to be initiated. It can be affected by belief, the whims of the unseen, harsh language. And it is not. Supposed. To make. Sense. In fact, I think it's coolest when it doesn't.

I'm a fantasy writer, called a fantasy writer. But there's very little, apart from one or two basic concepts in 'I Shall Wear Midnight,' which are in fact fantasy. You have sticks that fly, but they're practical broomsticks, with a bloody great strap that you can hold on to so you don't fall off. And you try not to use them too often.

America may have great poets and novelists, but she never will have more than one necromancer.

I love the idea that magic and witchcraft and battles between supernatural creatures could be raging all around us but just out of our sight.

A witch is one who worketh by the Devil or by some curious art either healing or revealing things secret, or foretelling things to come which the Devil hath devised to ensnare men's souls …

The thing about 'Game of Thrones' is it doesn't pin too much of a focus on magic. It kind of paints it in the same way that mystical things are portrayed in our world, because you don't walk about Westeros and see wizards with staffs or magical wands. All the characters don't really believe in it. It's this mysterious hidden vein to Westeros.

Magic is what it is, and those who work it can be male or female; it doesn't matter. What matters is power.