Stories, like conjuring tricks, are invented because…

“Just like conjuring up a spell, or harnessing wolf instincts, wielding demonic power came as naturally to me as committing misdemeanors.”

— Kelly Oram

When I'm writing, I'm waiting to see somebody, and I'm waiting to hear them. It's almost like conjuring spirits out of the air, using…

— Charles Baxter

“...and history felt like a conjuring trick. All of this had been in plain view the entire time, but only now did the magician…

— Jay Bell

A paradox: the same century invented history and photography. But history is a memory fabricated according to positive formulas, a pure intellectual discourse which…

— Roland Barthes

We invented a history of Poland as a tolerant, open country, a country that has not been tainted by any atrocities committed against its…

— Olga Tokarczuk

“Modern history, both early and late, was made by Europeans, who "built a world around Europe", as historians "know", according to Braudel. That is…

— André Gunder Frank

Filmmakers began to experiment with special effects almost as soon as motion pictures were invented. The history of special effects is the history of…

— Ben Burtt

Every time that God navigates my ship, there's nothing cerebral going on. There's very little thought. It's almost as if I have the directions.…

— Lauryn Hill

“It occurred to Raule that all children were monsters in the world and were instinctively aware of it. They were reminded of their anomalous…

— K.J. Bishop

Some day I'm gonna be gone and people will be listening to my songs and conjuring me up. In order for that to happen,…

— Tom Waits

Magic and art tend to share a lot of the same language. They both talk about evocation, invocation, and conjuring.

— Alan Moore

The notion of sitting down and conjuring up, not only words in which to clothe thoughts but thoughts worthy of being clothed--the whole thing…

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

I loved 'The Conjuring' so much. It's really scary.

— Leigh Whannell

[Football is] a game that requires the constant conjuring of animosity.

— Vince Lombardi

“A magician must always value his magic effects more than himself, because after few years audience may not remember his name but they will…

— Amit Kalantri