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Tag: books, magic, reading

Books” – Snell smiled – “are a kind of magic.

books, magic, reading

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.

books, magic, reading

Books are another kind of magic.

books, magic, reading

Scarlett Thomas

Child, all books are magic. Just think,’ he said, ‘about what books make people do. People go to war on the basis of what they read in books. They believe in “facts” just because they are written down. They decide to adopt political systems, to travel to one place rather than another, to give up their job and go on a great adventure, to love or to hate. All books have tremendous power. And power is magic.’ ‘But are these books really magic…?

books, magic, reading

Reading is where the magic happens

books, magic, reading

What was a book? Not just ink and fiber and stitchery: a series of processes. To a wizard, it was not a static object–but a human thought caught and bound, made concrete through sacred technology. Magic, then, and a deep form of it.

books, magic, reading