Employment Quote by Terry Pratchett

“Do you wish to work for the betterment of all humankind? Reconsider your motivations for becoming a wizard.”

— Joseph J. Bailey

“Every great wizard in history has started out as nothing more than what we are now, students. If they can do it, why not…

— J.K. Rowling

“Poor gentleman," said Mr Segundus. "Perhaps it is the age. It is not an age for magic or scholarship, is it sir? Tradesmen prosper,…

— Susanna Clarke

“Mastership is more than being a wizard.”

— Petra Hermans

I kind of like the idea of living a rather ordinary life as a shopkeeper, and I examine that possibility as one of the…

— Ian Anderson

This looks like a job for inadvisably applied magic if ever I saw one.

— Terry Pratchett

“I've heard of a guy in Chicago who advertises in the phone book under "Wizard",though that's probably a urban legend.”

— Benedict Jacka

“Back then, in 1967, wizards were all, more or less, Merlin and Gandalf. Old men, peaked hats, white beards. But this was to be…

— Ursula K. Le Guin

I always use the same comparison: Ian McKellen isn't a wizard. I'm not a 19-year-old aristocrat from the 19th century. It's all made up.

— Nicola Coughlan

An unskilled middle-aged man can work in the mines, and it pays well.

— Richard Flanagan

“He may be deaf and a little hard of thinking, but elderly wizards have very well-trained survival instincts, and they know that when a…

— Terry Pratchett

“Wizard’s work was a pleasure and a madness. No wonder the university magicians rambled at times like daft bastards.”

— Lita Burke