Peter S. Beagle Quotes

I'm a powerful being... a wizard," Corny said. "So don't try anything." "Yes," said the little faery, blinking black eyes rapidly. "No. Try nothing.

What use is magic if it can't save a unicorn?

We are the nation of dreams. We are seers. We are wizards. We speak in visions. Our letters are like flocks of doves, released from under our hats. We have only to stretch out our hand and desire, and what we wish for settles like a kerchief in our palm. We are a race of sorcerers, enchanters. We are Atlantis. We are the wizard-isle of Mu.

Do not meddle in the affairs of Wizards, for they are subtle and quick to anger.

I think every fantasy reader secretly believes they know how magic works.

It's really hard to think of one kind of magic as a favorite. I've been really fortunate in that I've been able to perform such a diverse range of things.

In a way, we are magicians. We are alchemists, sorcerers and wizards. We are a very strange bunch. But there is great fun in being a wizard.

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

I love the idea that magic and witchcraft and battles between supernatural creatures could be raging all around us but just out of our sight.

I'm still a little certain I'm a wizard.

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.

Mischief moves somewhere near and I must blast it with my magic.

The trouble is, the other side can do magic too, Prime Minister.

Artemis Fowl grinned right back at him and pointed his index finger to the sky... from the tip of this finger sprang a small blue spark that exploded like a tiny firework. “I know magic can be stolen,” said Artemis. “Because I stole some myself.

MAGIC, n. An art of converting superstition into coin. There are other arts serving the same high purpose, but the discreet lexicographer does not name them.

BEFORE I DISCOVERED THE miracles of science, magic ruled the world.

Then what is magic for?" Prince Lír demanded wildly. "What use is wizardry if it cannot save a unicorn?" He gripped the magician's shoulder hard, to keep from falling. Schmedrick did not turn his head. With a touch of sad mockery in his voice, he said, "That's what heroes are for.

What is magic? There is the wizard's explanation... wizards talk about candles, circles, planets, stars, bananas, chants, runes and the importance of having at least four good meals every day.

I put the ick in magic.

I was always fascinated by fairy stories, fantasy, you know, demons, necromancers, gods and goddesses, everything that is out of our kin and out of our everyday world. I was always interested in enchantment and magicians and still am.

What is merely a hypothesis to anyone else is an overwhelming temptation to a wizard.

Magic: (n) The art of converting superstition into coin.

I'm a wizard and I know it.

Magic gives you a lot of choices," Grandad says. "Most of them are bad.

Every time I conjure up a rock, I throw it.