Most of us are naturally inclined to struggle against the restrictions our friends and family impose upon us, but if we are so unfortunate as to lose a loved one, what a difference then! Then the restriction becomes a sacred trust.
When you’re writing, you’re creating something out of nothing … A successful piece of writing is like doing a successful piece of magic.”, 6 March 2012]
Time and I have quarrelled. All hours are midnight now. I had a clock and a watch, but I destroyed them both. I could not bear the way they mocked me.
I was told once by some country people that a magician should never tell his dreams because the telling will make them come true. But I say that is great nonsense.
Oh! And they read English novels! David! Did you ever look into an English novel? Well, do not trouble yourself. It is nothing but a lot of nonsense about girls with fanciful names getting married.
Where have they gone?” “Wherever magicians used to go. Behind the sky. On the other side of the rain.
It might well appear to Sir Walter that there had been no quarrel. It was often the case that gentlemen did not observe the signs.
Can a magician kill a man by magic?” Lord Wellington asked Strange.Strange frowned. He seemed to dislike the question. “I suppose a magician might,” he admitted, “but a gentleman never could.
Magic, madam, is like wine and, if you are not used to it, it will make you drunk.
But the other Ministers considered that to employ a magician was one thing, novelists were quite another and they would not stoop to it.
Beware Stephen! There will probably be a magical combat of some sort. I daresay I shall have to take on different forms – cockatrice, raw head and bloody bones, rains of fire, etc., etc. You may wish to stand back a little!
When you’re writing, you’re creating something out of nothing … A successful piece of writing is like doing a successful piece of m
It seemed that it was not only live magicians which Mr. Norrell despised. He had taken the measure of all the dead ones too and found them wanting.
Above all remember this: that magic belongs as much to the heart as to the head and everything which is done, should be done from love or joy or righteous anger.
Bright yellow leaves flowed swiftly upon the dark, almost-black water, making patterns as they went. To Mr. Segundus the patterns looked a little like magical writing. ‘But then,’ he thought, ‘So many things do.
Ha!” cried Dr John contemptuously. “Magic! That is chiefly used for killing Frenchmen, is it not?
That will teach me to meddle with magic meant for kings! Norrell is right. Some magic is not meant for ordinary magicians. Presumably John Uskglass knew what to do with this horrible knowledge. I do not.
I have no cause to love Mr. Norrell- far from it. But I know this about him: he is a magician first and everything else second- and Jonathan is the same. Books and magic are all either of them really care about.
It is the right of a traveller to vent their frustration at every minor inconvenience by writing of it to their friends.
[A] smile is the most becomingornament that any lady can wear.
For there was nothing in his eyes but the black night and the cold stars.
I have been quite put out of temper this morning and someone ought to die for it.
For, though the room was silent, the silence of half a hundred cats is a peculiar thing, like fifty individual silences all piled one on top of another.