Archetype Quote by Marco Tempest

Magic, historically, has been a man doing tricks with no wider story behind it.

— Drummond Money-Coutts

Magic is at the core of myths.

— Colin Farrell

Writing stories is a kind of magic, too.

— Cornelia Funke

To create anything — whether a short story or a magazine profile or a film or a sitcom — is to believe, if only…

— Tom Bissell

“People tend to focus on the "magic" more than the "realism." But, like all fiction, fantasy arrives at truth via the road of untruth.”

— Salman Rushdie

Fiction is too complicated and too elusive to break down into a set of tricks.

— Ben Marcus

In order to experience real magic it is necessary to make a dramatic shift from outcome to purpose.

— Wayne Dyer

Books may well be the only true magic.

— Alice Hoffman

“Someone needs to tell those tales. When the battles are fought and lost, when the pirates find their treasures and the dragons eat their…

— Eric Morgenstern

“The object of storytelling, like the object of magic, is not to explain or to resolve, but rather to create and to perform miracles…

— Tim O'Brien

Magic is older than writing. So nobody knows how it started.

— Zora Neale Hurston

“Magical beliefs are revelatory and fascinating not because they are ill-conceived instruments of utility but because they are poetic echoes of the cadences that…

— Michael Taussig