Donna Tartt Quotes

The pale pink light of dawn sparkled on branch and leaf and stone. Every blade of grass was carved from emerald, every drip of water turned to diamond. Flowers and mushrooms alike wore coats of glass. Even the mud puddles had a bright brown sheen. Through the shimmering greenery, the black tents of his brothers were encased in a fine glaze of ice. So there is magic beyond the Wall after all.

Sleepy Hollow had a lot of action in it, even though it was a fairy-tale movie.

I see the world as a magical place. Therefore, it was only natural that magic wafted from my fiction like smoke.

I can write, He floated up to the ceiling, and a baby rabbit came out of his pocket, grew wings, and flew away. And you will believe that it really happened. That's magic, isn't it?

Anyone who has set out to invent a purely imaginary story knows that the whole thing is fantasy, from beginning to end; there must be a sense of magic created about the most restrained of naturalism.

Glamour is an imaginative process that creates a specific emotional response: a sharp mixture of projection, longing, admiration, and aspiration. It evokes an audience's hopes and dreams and makes them seem attainable, all the while maintaining enough distance to sustain the fantasy.

To my mind, 'Dear Brutus' stands halfway between Shakespeare's 'A Midsummer Night's Dream' and Stephen Sondheim and James Lapine's 'Into the Woods'. Like them, it is a play about enchantment and disillusion, dreams and reality.

I knew there was something special about the theater for me something beyond the regular reality, something that I could get into and transcend and become something other than myself.

In a way, we are magicians. We are alchemists, sorcerers and wizards. We are a very strange bunch. But there is great fun in being a wizard.

The fairytale has turned into a nightmare.

A child did approach me in a restaurant in Cornwall, but he thought I was Gandalf.

Writing about magic is harder than writing about spies because you're dealing with something that doesn't really exist.

Everything is for sale in Hollywood; the fairy tale, the costume, the pumpkin, the footman and the mice.

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.

I think that the ideal space must contain elements of magic, serenity, sorcery and mystery.

Magic speaks to the child in all of us. No matter how sophisticated we become, there's still a part of us who wants to believe in an alternative reality, where we can defy the laws of nature.

I was always interested in enchantment and magicians and still am.

This is magic we're talking about. It's supposed to go places science can't, defy logic, wink at technology, fill us all with the sensawunda that comes of gazing upon a fictional world and seeing something truly different from our own.

The more you can create that magic bubble, that suspension of disbelief, for a while, the better.

I don't particularly have any magical ambitions, but then, I never did. I just enjoyed the game.

… a fairyland to us, for all intents and purposes—a land of enchantment and awful mystery.

I believe that a world that doesn't have some kind of magic in it wouldn't be worth living in.

I love whimsical things and forests. I'm really into all that.

If I wasn't a singer, I would be a fairy princess.

I've always loved magic.