Warren Ellis Quotes

There are thousands of good reasons why magic doesn't rule the world. They're called Witches and Wizards.

And so there is magic.

I've always loved magic.

Magic is always impossible.... It begins with the impossible and ends with the impossible and is impossible in between. That is why it's magic.

My idea of magic doesn't have much to do with stage tricks and illusions. The whole world abounds in magic.

What's the main thing that makes magic magic? The fact that no one believes that it's possible.

I love witches and magic and dress-up and make-believe.

In creating the Harry Potter artwork, I try to bring a certain amount of realism and believability to the characters and setting, but still add an element of wonder and the unknown.

Magic provides a way of still having room for possibilities, an unlimited sense of what the world offers. Magic is always there when science is found wanting.

I did magic all my life from the time I was 12, and I like to tap into the magic from history.

Every book that you pick up takes you a step away from your real world, but if you read a book about magic, it takes you an extra two steps.

I don't like magic.

I am a fan of magic and fantasy, particularly when it's grounded in reality.

I like to say magic is the world's second oldest profession, a mystical and often awe-inspiring spectacle that, throughout the ages, has blended superstition, trickery and religion.

Glamour is a beautiful illusion - the word 'glamour' originally meant a literal magic spell - that promises to transcend ordinary life and make the ideal real. It depends on a special combination of mystery and grace. Too much information breaks the spell.

I can write, He floated up to the ceiling, and a baby rabbit came out of his pocket, grew wings, and flew away. And you will believe that it really happened. That's magic, isn't it?

Writing about magic is harder than writing about spies because you're dealing with something that doesn't really exist.

'California Bones' is the first volume in my trilogy about Daniel Blackland, a wizard trying to survive in a world that eats wizards. It's a book about friends and family, trust and betrayal, the love of power and the power of love.

For me, a great fantasy is real people, a world I recognise, human struggle and magic. You've got to have magic to make a fantasy work. But I like my magic to be subtle. I don't want magic coming out of the hands of wizards. I want it to be pervading, sinister somehow.

But the whole idea of the transformation... mystery, transformation, and manipulations - those were the things that Marcel was a magician at. That's his magic.

I was always interested in enchantment and magicians and still am.

… a fairyland to us, for all intents and purposes—a land of enchantment and awful mystery.

You don't question magic.

I've always been so attracted to magic.

Anything that has a dragon, a wand, pixie dust, fairies, magic, any of that, I love it. I'm obsessed with it, I will read it, I will watch it, I will commit it to memory.