“Falling in love is an act of magic, so is writing.”

“... it is worth remembering that the act of writing has its own magic.”

“There's a certain magic about writing even when the characters refuse to act the way I want them to.”

“But who can distinguish between falling in love and imagining falling in love? Even genuinely falling in love is an act of the imagination.”

“Most people know intuitively that when you fall in love, the world is full of magic. What they don't know is that when you discover the universe is full of magic, you fall in love with the world.”

“I'm writing a book on magic”, I explain, and I'm asked, “Real magic?” By real magic people mean miracles, thaumaturgical acts, and supernatural powers. “No”, I answer: “Conjuring tricks, not real magic”. Real magic, in other words, refers to the magic that is not real, while the magic that is real, that can actually be done, is not real magic.”