Age Quote by Orson Welles

One magician demanded I show him an image of the love of his life. I rustled up a mirror.

— Jonathan Stroud

I was damn lucky to choose this profession. I had no idea when I started out that I was really an illusionist and a…

— Dennis DeYoung

Nobody ever warned me about mirrors, so for many years I was fond of them, and believed them to be trustworthy. . .

— Helen Oyeyemi

I discovered that magic tricks got me more attention from the girls in my class when I was nine - so a magician was…

— David Copperfield

I'm a magician. I've learned to do some really cool tricks like levitating myself and melting forks.

— Blake Michael

My parents were in their twenties in the early '70s, and if I could have a magic mirror to see something from the past,…

— Alana Haim

“Oh! it is an excellent thing,” enthused a lady. “See how the darkness of the mirror behind the figures sets off Mr Strange’s head.”…

— Susanna Clarke

I invented magic stuff; it came very easily. Now, I sucked at everything else, but I was good at magic as a kid.

— David Copperfield

I did magic all my life from the time I was 12, and I like to tap into the magic from history.

— Marco Tempest

There's something a bit embarrassing about saying you're a magician. It immediately suggests all these horrendous cliches, let alone that you're a grown-up doing…

— Derren Brown

When I became a teen, I ran into a friend at a magic shop who took me under his wing. I started reading up…

— Apollo Robbins

“I'd say all mirrors are magical, or can be. They show you yourself after all. Really seeing yourself, though, that's the hard part.”

— Adam Gidwitz