Jim Butcher Quotes

The magic of the tongue is the most dangerous of all spells.

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

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

My understanding of magic is fairly straightforward. Hit enemies with a sword until they’re dead. If they rise again, hit them again. Repeat as necessary. It worked against Set.

This is what magic is. It's being able to speak in a voice which makes things happen, being able to speak in a voice which causes facts to be beheld by groups of people in a way that has been purged from profane language, for us relegated to poetry and that sort of thing.

Books are not seldom talismans and spells.

Words and magic were in the beginning one and the same thing, and even today words retain much of their magical power.

I'm surprised you don't know more about magic, Sister Verna. There is a word that is magic. It can accomplish more than you might think. Maybe you have heard it before. It is the word 'please.

And of the Witch? In the life of a Witch, there is no "after", in the "ever after" of a Witch there is no "happily"; in the story of a Witch, there is no afterword. Of that part that is beyond the life story, beyond the story of the life, there is-alas, or perhaps thank mercy-no telling. She was dead, dead, and gone, and all that was left of her was the carapace of her reputation for malice.

Cast a spell and the small flaws don't matter. (From Workbook)

Is there a connection between language and magic? Yes. Ten times yes. So much yes that it almost doesn't bear talking about. It's as pointless that arguing that the sun is hot.

The real secret of magic is that the world is made of words, and that if you know the words that the world is made of you can make of it whatever you wish.

Using words to describe magic is like using a screwdriver to cut roast beef.

Wizard's Third Rule Passion rules reason, For better or for worse.

There is magic, but you have to be the magician. You have to make the magic happen.

Magic is what we do, music is how we do it.

Magic is the cheat codes for the world.

The moon was gone, but to the magician's eyes the unicorn was the moon, cold and white and very old, lighting his way to safety, or to madness.

I have lived with magic and without magic, and I can tell you with certainty that a life with magic is better.

We need metaphors of magic and monsters in order to understand the human condition.

What you call magic is nothing more than an act of the imagination fired by the senses, then given shape by the power of your aura.

Magic is the craft of shaping, the craft of the wise, exhilarating, dangerous - the ultimate adventure. The power of magic should not be underestimated. It works, often in ways that are unexpected and difficult to control.

Magic is what we invent when we want something we think we cant have.

Magic and all that is ascribed to it is a deep presentiment of the powers of science.

Magic: (n) The art of converting superstition into coin.