Art Quote by William S. Burroughs

I see painting as an evocative magic, and there must always be a random factor in magic, one which must be constantly changed and…

— William S. Burroughs

“Maybe there was some kind of witch’s code that stated that magic should only be used for good and worthy causes. Hopefully not.”

— Adele Abbott

Cats were often familiars to workers of magic because to anyone used to wrestling with self-willed, wayward, devious magic--which was what all magic was--it…

— Robin McKinley

I have always believed in magic. I used to run into the woods as a little kid looking for witches. But I'm not superstitious,…

— Anya Taylor-Joy

“There might be a charm in the black arts section of the library, but black earth magic used nasty ingredients—like indispensable people parts—and I…

— Kim Harrison

Magic is used in espionage, all the time, for clandestine things. I've got a whole library from a gentleman who was hired by the…

— David Copperfield

Knut Hamsun's writing is magical. His sentences are glowing; he could write about anything and make it alive. Of contemporary writers, Thure Erik Lund…

— Karl Ove Knausgard

I just love writing. It's magical, it's somewhere else to go, it's somewhere much more dreadful, somewhere much more exciting. Somewhere I feel I…

— Tanith Lee

For me, even in my first book, the pleasures of writing anything magical is that it has to be physical. It has to be…

— Aimee Bender

Set your fantasies in the here and now and then, if challenged, claim to be writing Magical Realism.

— Neil Gaiman

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

— Alice Hoffman

Language is inexorably tied to power and understanding. And power and understanding are the roots of magic. Just the act of writing something down…

— Patrick Rothfuss