N. K. Jemisin Quotes

I'd like to bring magic back to the place it used to be 100 years ago.

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

Yeah, I believe in all the wild, witchcraft stuff. I don't like to dabble in that, but I believe they all know something.

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

It's too bad that the idea of witchcraft and sorcery is a taboo subject matter.

In my research, what I found most interesting was how common and ordinary magic was to people in the past.

I like to say magic is the world's second oldest profession, a mystical and often awe-inspiring spectacle that, throughout the ages, has blended superstition, trickery and religion.

Magic frightens people almost as much as it intrigues them.

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.

I know the difference between black magic and white magic.

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

Witchcraft and priestcraft, were introduced into this world together, … and has gone on, hand in hand together

I honestly do not believe in witchcraft.

Magic is my paint.

When it draws near to witching time of night.

Magic, like technology, is a tool.

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.

I am not a witch doctor, and in fact, you cannot have a witch doctor. You are either a witch or a doctor.

I really don't believe in magic.

I ain't got no magical powers and mystical trips and all that kind of crap. It's kind of silly.

Superstitions and belief in magic are perennial in just the same way as religion, and something near to being universal among mankind; and why this is so may be interesting, but in most cases the beliefs themselves are devoid of interesting content, at least to me.

In the past, people generally believed they could acquire magic in two ways: through learning the craft, either from another practitioner or from books; or through obtaining magic from a powerful being-think Faust or the classic, demonized witch, both of whom get their mojo from Satan.

Magic is a state of mind. It is often portrayed as very black and gothic, and that is because certain practitioners played that up for a sense of power and prestige. That is a disservice. Magic is very colorful. Of this, I am sure.

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 18th century, which is usually held to be the most "materialistic" of epochs, was, in fact, a most "spiritualistic" one; in which ghosts, demons, quacks, philosophers' stones, enchanters' wands, mysteries and mummeries, were as fashionable—as they will probably be again some day.