“Fiction writing is a kind of magic. If I communicate the magic spell . . . it loses its force for me.”
“Sex pleasure in women is a kind of magic spell; it demands complete abandon; if words or movements oppose the magic of caresses, the spell is broken.”
“Writing stories is a kind of magic, too.”
“As Mo had said: writing stories is a kind of magic, too.”
“The magic of fiction lies in deluding reason that it is fiction.”
“Magic is a kind of energy. It is given shape by human thoughts and emotions, by imagination. Thoughts define that shape—and words help to define those thoughts. That’s why wizards usually use words to help them with their spells. Words provide a sort of insulation as the energy of magic burns through a spell caster’s mind.”