Judith Tarr Quotes

Magic, like technology, is a tool.

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.

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.

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

Magic is my paint.

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

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.

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

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

When it draws near to witching time of night.

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

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.

Magic frightens people almost as much as it intrigues them.

I really don't believe in magic.

Magic has been around forever, and it's also been in trouble forever. I'm not suggesting that there was ever a time when the practice of magic was celebrated by those in power. Actually, such practices were routinely demonized by monarchs and organized religions precisely because magic is inherently democratic.

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 …

It's a fine line between magic and science. In medieval times, science was magic.

I have always believed in magic. I used to run into the woods as a little kid looking for witches. But I'm not superstitious, because I m not afraid of it. I see it as something really beautiful, and I wouldn't want to live in a world without magic.

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

Magic is at the core of myths.

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

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