The tricks of magic follow the archetypes of narrative fiction - there are tales of creation and loss, death and resurrection, and obstacles that must be overcome.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Magic is an art form where you lie and tell people you are lying.
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 now find magic in the mundane. I'm also more creative - better able to look beyond the obvious and come up with new story angles.
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.
First of all, writing at best - certainly fiction writing - more and more I think is magic.
It seemed to me that you make magic real by making it a little prosaic, a little difficult and disappointing - never quite as glamorous as the other characters imagine.
I think every fantasy reader secretly believes they know how magic works.
I don't know what to think about magic and fairy tales.
It's very exciting to take magic into a new direction, whereas a lot of times magic comes from a place of sort of ego, like, 'Look what I can do that you can't do.' It kind of comes across that way a lot, and you're always trying to challenge the magician; you're always trying to figure out how the magician is doing it.
Magic, historically, has been a man doing tricks with no wider story behind it.