Richard Dawkins Quotes

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

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'd always wanted to do these types of things - pieces of magic I could put out not as illusions, but really doing it.

I'm a fantasy writer, called a fantasy writer. But there's very little, apart from one or two basic concepts in 'I Shall Wear Midnight,' which are in fact fantasy. You have sticks that fly, but they're practical broomsticks, with a bloody great strap that you can hold on to so you don't fall off. And you try not to use them too often.

Rituals are magical.

Magic is at the core of myths.

Any sufficiently badly-written science is indistinguishable from magic.

I am a fan of magic and fantasy, particularly when it's grounded in reality.

I think every fantasy reader secretly believes they know how magic works.

After being in Harry Potter, I believe a bit more in magic than I did before.

I want witchcraft so bad that I can't stand it. I have wands in my apartment. And I use them sometimes. I walk into the kitchen with my wand, and I come out with something on a platter and I say, 'See, magic happens.' Works every time.

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

Magic really helped me.

I love the idea that magic and witchcraft and battles between supernatural creatures could be raging all around us but just out of our sight.

The Wizard of Ooze

The Wizard War

You don't question magic.

We really liked the magic of 'Harry Potter' and 'The Lord of the Rings,' but we could never figure out where the powers came from.

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.

I think magic and fantasy are very attractive, especially in the day and age we're living in. How amazing would it be to use your powers for good? We definitely tackle that in 'Charmed.'

If the world held magic powerful enough to make the elephant appear, then there must exist, too, magic in equal measure, magic powerful enough to undo what had been done.

I wanted to be a witch when I was a kid. I was obsessed with witchcraft. At school, me and my two friends had these spell books; I always wanted a more magical reality. I had a little shrine at home and I did a spell to try and make the boy in the other class fall in love with me.

BEFORE I DISCOVERED THE miracles of science, magic ruled the world.