Laurell K. Hamilton Quotes

Magicians will always tell you the trick is the most important thing, but I'm more interested in telling a story.

I don't think you can say something is or isn't magic. That's what was cool about Houdini, because he was a magician who had a magic show, but he was also an escape artist, and they kind of, over time, blended together. They both kind of enhance each other, I think.

Part of show business is magic. You don't know how it happens.

But the whole idea of the transformation... mystery, transformation, and manipulations - those were the things that Marcel was a magician at. That's his magic.

All fiction for me is a kind of magic and trickery, a confidence trick, trying to make people believe something is true that isn't.

Women are like tricks by sleight of hand, Which, to admire, we should not understand

Magic things are fond of deceptions.

For me, the most exciting thing is to create good magic that's entertaining for an audience, and it would be lovely if a magician was fooled as well.

I find revealing the secrets of magic quite reprehensible.

Magic and new technology have always walked hand in hand - even back in the days of Robert Houdin.

The magician and the politician have much in common: they both have to draw our attention away from what they are really doing.

Of course, in all magic tricks there's a secret.

If there are two things Penn & Teller stand for, it's the truth & lying, although not necessarily in that order.

Well, I also love magic, which is, you know, different than showmanship. Magic's an art where you use slight of hand or illusion to create wonder.

The real secret of magic lies in the performance.

To obfuscate the reconstruction of the effect - when a magician is fooled by another magician doing magic. In my career that's not been the major passion, but it's been the passion of a number of my mentors. The crowning achievement for them would be to create magic good enough to fool other magicians.

It's very exciting to take magic into a new direction, whereas a lot of times magic comes from a place of sort of ego, like, 'Look what I can do that you can't do.' It kind of comes across that way a lot, and you're always trying to challenge the magician; you're always trying to figure out how the magician is doing it.

If you do sleight of hand without trying to cheat someone, that's what magic is.

If you're creating a whole universe, even if it's a universe squeezed into a solar system, you have to use a little bit of sleight of hand.

A clever conjurer is welcome anywhere, and those of us whose powers of entertainment are limited to the setting of booby-traps or the arranging of apple-pie beds must view with envy the much greater tribute of laughter and applause which is the lot of the prestidigitator with some natural gift for legerdemain.

We all enjoy a magic show, but we don't demand a Q&A afterward explaining how it was done.

The whole idea of spellbinding, of being an entertainer, being the center of the stage, making up words - that let me know that writing is nice.

A magician pulls a rabbit from a hat, and actors pull truth from fiction.

Magic has both feet planted in cheap vaudeville and childish posturing; in dishonesty and therefore not in art.

I always say that I love magic but I hate magicians. I like being fooled. If you wave your hands in front of my face and I think you're doing a trick, I'm easily impressed. If you pull a quarter out of my ear, I'm quite certain you're a wizard. But I don't like the way most magicians don't act like they're magical; they act like show business dicks.