...the air has that bracing autumnal bite so that all you want to do is bob for apples or hang a witch or something.
Progress just means bad things happen faster.
The invisible people knew that happiness is not the natural state of mankind, and is never achieved from the outside in.
People think that stories are shaped by people. In fact, it's the other way around.
I can only control my actions, not their reactions," Senna replied. "But I have to live with both.
It doesn't matter who you are or what you look like, so long as somebody loves you.
All human beings have their otherness and it is that which cries out to the heart.
Curiouser and curiouser," he says. I smile at the reference. Carroll was totally a witch. The secrets of our world are written into that book.
Angels, demons, spirits, wizards, gods and witches have peppered folk religions since mankind first started telling stories.
Real life... Witches: Wiccan practitioners. Werewolves: rare strain of rabies. Zombies: Prions/Plague. Vampires: Hemophilia/Porphyria
His witch had finally arrived. He knew it within his heart and he danced, giddy as a schoolboy on the first day of summer vacation.
My next book is on the Salem witch trials. As a small-town Massachusetts girl, this makes me very happy. So does the reunion with documents!
I really like supernatural stories, but, to me, 'Witches of East End' is really grounded. It's not just going for the magic tricks and keeping it superficial and action-y.
I think probably the scariest thing, as weird as it sounds, was 'The Wizard of Oz' and the flying monkeys with the witch. I remember seeing that - it still seems freaky.
Most books on witchcraft will tell you that witches work naked. This is because most books on witchcraft were written by men.
It's 2009, things change. I'm a creature of habit, so in the beginning I wanted it to be as much like the original as possible, but that's not reality. And reality is, this is a new generation, and people want to see 'Witch Mountain' again.
I worked for MI6 in the Sixties, during the great witch-hunts, when the shared paranoia of the Cold War gripped the services.
I'd call it a new version of voodoo economics, but I'm afraid that would give witch doctors a bad name.
Witches are liberated from their own fears and limited thinking. In turn, their presence has the power to liberate and consciously expand others.
I couldn't resist hiding some historical details and a few clues relevant to the plot and characters of 'A Discovery of Witches' throughout the pages of the novel.
In England we burnt redheads at the stake, because we thought they were witches. There are still young redheads in Britain getting ripped for having red hair. 'Oy, Ginger!'