narrative magic Quotes

And so he was reading the story as if it were a spell and the words of it, spoken aloud, could make magic happen.

In a story you only had to wish, you only had to write it down and you could have the world...It seemed so obvious now that it was too late: a story was a form of telepathy. By means of inking symbols onto a page, she was able to send thoughts and feelings from her mind to her reader's. It was a magical process, so commonplace that no one stopped to wonder at it. Reading a sentence and understanding it were the same thing; as with the crooking of a finger, nothing lay between them. There was no gap during which the symbols were unraveled.

A story is not something of this world. A real story requires a kind of magical baptism to link the world on this side with the world on the other side.

I have never forgotten the almost mystical power over an audience a storyteller has, when the story is deep and links you.

[ Gil Cates] said, "You've got a point of view with your magic. There's this comedy to it, there's drama. You're telling stories with magic."

That was the best kind of story: when the teller was as much under its spell as the listener.

The best stories infuse wonder.

I had a point of view, which was different. I looked at magic as theater, as storytelling, and I tried to have an approach that was different from what they were doing. "How can I move people and really get them to dream with a card trick, with coin magic, or even a piece of stage magic?"