With Yale, my world got so big all of a sudden. At school, if you could dream it, someone would make it so that you could do it. It was magical. I had a lot going on, as you do when you're 17, and didn't necessarily capitalize on all of it, but it made me see possibility in a way that I hadn't before.

- Bellamy Young

The world that she lives in is just magical, one of the most beautiful places I've ever seen.

- Camilla Belle

Second, there are so many magical places in books that you can't go to, like Hogwarts and Middle Earth, so I wanted to set a story in a place where children can actually go.

- Cornelia Funke

Sometimes what is 'real' because it takes place in the physical world, like 9/11, is so unreal on the level of the soul. Then other things, which in terms of the physical world seem so magical and unbelievable, on the level of the soul seem very real.

- Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni

Under the veneer of Westernization, the cultures of the Indian world - which have existed for 30,000 years! - continue to live. Sometimes in a magical way, sometimes in the shadows.

- Carlos Fuentes

One of the magical things about Nashville is just how many incredibly talented people are here and the way they support each other.

- Callie Khouri

The pretentiousness of literature really annoys me; the way a writer is held as this sort of magical person to be revered on the stage. Everything I do on tour is to try and destroy that pretense.

- Chuck Palahniuk

In the course of his presidency, Obama has gone from an almost magical charismatic figure to an ordinary politician. Ordinary. Average.

- Charles Krauthammer

The things shamans deal with are extremely practical. They break down parameters of normal historical reality. Magical passes are just one aspect of that.

- Carlos Castaneda

What is chic is just to be perfect, like magical, no?

- Carine Roitfeld

Science is always discovering odd scraps of magical wisdom and making a tremendous fuss about its cleverness.

- Aleister Crowley

People don't understand computers. Computers are magical boxes that do things. People believe what computers tell them.

- Bruce Schneier

There's something magical about a woman who feels comfortable in her own skin.

- Brooke Burke

What interests me about clocks is that everything is hand-made, and yet to the person looking at the clock, something magical is happening that cannot be explained unless you are the clockmaker.

- Brian Selznick

I don't think that books are wondrous, magical things that come from nowhere. It's important that a book has clues about where and how it was written.

- Alvaro Enrigue

If everyone invested in the neighborhood they lived in, the United States would be a magical place.

- Anthony Mackie

The theater is magical and addictive.

- Angela Lansbury

For me, even in my first book, the pleasures of writing anything magical is that it has to be physical. It has to be grounded and very much in this world. Then, I get to play with all the consequences of this new thing.

- Aimee Bender

Generally, I think most of my writing tends to have some kind of magical element to it. That's the way I can access the emotional life of the character.

- Aimee Bender

I've had years of bizarre hallucinogenic magical experiences in which I believed I had communicated with entities that may well have been disassociated parts of my own personality or conceivably some independent entity of a metaphysical nature. Both would seem equally interesting.

- Alan Moore