Author Quote by Steve Burrows

“I use the word mystery,rather than magic. I love magic. something magic was always going to happen. When it did, it never did anything…

— Marion Woodman

The tricks of magic follow the archetypes of narrative fiction — there are tales of creation and loss, death and resurrection, and obstacles that…

— Marco Tempest

“Cutter: Every great magic trick consists of three parts or acts. The first part is called "The Pledge". The magician shows you something ordinary:…

— Christopher Priest

If writing is thinking and discovery and selection and order and meaning, it is also awe and reverence and mystery and magic.

— Toni Morrison

“Writing itself was a magical act in which imagination altered reality and gave form to power.”

— Alice Hoffman

Mystery writing involves solving a puzzle, but high suspense writing is a situation whereby the writer thrusts the hero/heroine into high drama.

— Iris Johansen

There are two ways to approach the writing of a mystery novel: adhere to the rules, or break them with glee.

— Sarah Weinman

Every magic trick consists of three parts, or acts. The first part is called the Pledge. The magician shows you something ordinary. The second…

— Michael Caine

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

— Zora Neale Hurston

What writing does is to reveal.

— Rita Dove

To write a good mystery you have to know where it will end before you can decide where it will begin... and I've always…

— D. J. MacHale

What I do is write, and I try to write as closely as I can into what I call 'the mystery.'

— Nick Flynn