Andre Aciman Quotes

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

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

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.

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

I still want magic, I find. The old fashioned kind. I don't believe in it, but I still have a hankering for it.

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.

I'm not over-reacting, but I do think people have to be a bit cautious when they say all kind of activities associated with witchcraft are harmless.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

Magic is at the core of myths.

Duh! So, we're asking you now, what are some of your favorite lines that this warlock brain produced?

When it draws near to witching time of night.

I don't like magic.

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.

Magic frightens people almost as much as it intrigues them.

In America, magic has never been an important part of peoples' lives.

I really don't believe in magic.