Quotes of: Black-magic Keyword

When you become a teenager, you step onto a bridge. You may already be on it. The opposite shore is adulthood. Childhood lies behind. The bridge is made of wood. As you cross, it burns behind you

Writing Magic: Creating Stories that Fly

Some people live as though they are already dead. There are people moving around us who are consumed by their past, terrified of their future, and stuck in their anger and jealousy. They are not alive; they are just walking corpses.

You Are Here: Discovering the Magic of the Present Moment

I bought new strings of colored lights. This served as a profession of faith in the future. I take the opportunity for such professions where and when I can invent them, since I do not yet actually feel this faith in the future.

The Year of Magical Thinking

As a writer, even as a child, long before what I wrote began to be published, I developed a sense that meaning itself was resident in the rhythms of words and sentences and paragraphs...The way I write is who I am, or have become...

The Year of Magical Thinking

Books were only one type of receptacle where we stored a lot of things we were afraid we might forget. There is nothing magical in them, at all. The magic is only in what the books say, how they stitched the patches of the universe together into one ...

Ray Bradbury

Magic is dangerous: it's neither good nor bad, right nor wrong; it can be both a blessing and a curse. It takes strength, the strength of a man, to make the magic his own, to make it serve him, and not the other way around.

The Kings and Queens of Roam

I probably get a deeper satisfaction of having taken a very good photograph than of having written something very good, a very good story. Maybe it's because the element of magic is so present in a good photograph - luck and magic, but also hard work...

Teju Cole

Growing up, yeah, I had a magic kit with learn tricks and learn card tricks, but I was never... I used to watch whatever magic special was on as a kid, but then, it's not that I lost interest, but to be a magician, you really, it's really hard work. ...

Steve Buscemi

Like legend and myth, magic fades when it is unused -- hence all the old tales of elfin kingdoms moving further and further away from our world, or that magical beings require our faith, our belief in their existence, to survive. That is a lie. All t...

Charles de Lint

I am saying that while popular culture usually portrays practitioners of magic as separate from ordinary people, often biologically different, many people have habits or customs or superstitions that show magic was once a whole lot more democratic.

David Liss

Blanche DuBois: I don't want realism. I want magic! Yes, yes, magic. I try to give that to people. I do misrepresent things. I don't tell truths. I tell what ought to be truth.

A Streetcar Named Desire

I used to have this toy, a magic slate. You wrote or drew on it and then, just by pulling up the plastic cover, everything you did disappeared and you could start new. Maybe everyone feels that on New Year's Eve: They can pull up the magic sheet and ...

V.C. Andrews

Every achievement starts from a dream. So let's dream!

Charm: An Amazing Story of a Little Black Cat

If the town were a black hole, I was the helpless star being sucked into oblivion. It was an oblivion I craved.

Caged in Darkness

Gonna have to give myself a mental enema when we get back to the TARDIS.

Doctor Who: The Nightmare of Black Island

How come "burbled" gets to be in the Oxford English Dictionary but "tulgy" doesn't? Hm?

Doctor Who: The Nightmare of Black Island

I was murdered. Even though my heart continued to beat, I was very much deceased. All faded to black

Fade to Black

A good bookshop is just a genteel Black Hole that knows how to read.

Guards! Guards!

The world should have been in Technicolour, but seemed more like black and white.

Half Brother

Why, on to the castle, to kill the royal family, and claim the throne that isn't mine by right!

The Black Adder

there are some some times in life where you have to let your feelings go and do what must be done

The Black Banner