Twilight has a supernatural reference to it with werewolves and vampires. Harry Potter has magic. The Hunger Games is about real people put into extreme situations and circumstances.
Not to say people shouldn't get rich from art. I adore the alchemy wherein artists who cast a complex spell make rich people give them their money. (Just writing it makes me cackle.) But too many...
I met Metro on FaceTime. In person, was in the studio. That was when we had already decided we were gonna do a mixtape together. There were three keyboards around him. Once I started to say, 'Hey, let...
Journey gave me a magic wand, and it's changed the man that I am. I was able to muster this kind of courage that I never, ever had in my life.
My disappointment with Christmas stems from my abject horror at losing the magic of Christmas when I was young. That's where it comes from. Because I'll never capture that Christmas joy and excitement...
Making people laugh is magic. I feel like if you have humility, then you can do anything in comedy.
It's almost uncanny to receive a prize named in honor of Bernard Malamud. I must have been in my early teens when 'The Magic Barrel' was published and I first read it.
Magic has lived an extraordinary life as a champion athlete, passionate activist, and highly successful entrepreneur. The impact of Magic's life on the game of basketball and beyond is undeniable.
Exhibitions are kind of ephemeral moments, sometimes magic moments, and when they're gone, they're gone.
When I started playing, my mom said there were three players she wanted me to watch - Magic Johnson, Larry Bird and Michael Jordan.
Every year I spend one month just sailing, but I still work when I'm on the boat. You never separate work from leisure. A boat is like a magic world, like a little island.
For a writer, capturing that elusive Christmas morning magic can be deeply problematic.
Something soft turn to stone within her. She had no choice. She had to fight. She had to win. She would learn. And then she'd free them.Or join them.
Magic and miracle they are nothing but manipulation of sight and heart.
Science gives man what he needs. But magic gives him what he wants.
The creatures of human myth flourish in Ourea. Trees are this world's skyscrapers. Magic its currency. And while the rest of Earth forgot what it means to dream big, Ourea kept alive its wonder.
This time he had no choice but to look into her eyes. He did not look away. It was the bright fierce gaze that she remembered so vividly from their first meeting. He'd reminded her of an eagle, the...
The problem with magic was that it made her feel very alone.
The Paco's Loco Tacos sign on my right lures me in. Not for the first time, I wonder if the tacos are crazy, if Paco is crazy, or if we are crazy for buying them. Well, I personally think a touch of...
Lord help her, but she was instantly drawn to his scent - a mixture of smoke and salt and mystery - as well as his strength. The pulse of his heart, the hum of blood through his veins, the aura of...
There once were four sisters Who were exceptionally ordinary, But desired more than a maiden should desire Ravaged by their shameful wants Their loving hearts never bloomed Instead four wicked...
Violet will carry he mark of Merlin's bloodline and she'll be able to wake The Lady from her slumber.
I roared at him. Don't mess with a wizard when he's wizarding!
But if you are going to take up a profession – and I cannot see why you should want one at all, now that you have come into your property – surely you can choose something better than magic! It...
His summons was answered quickly this time. Yet it was not Gavin who emerged, shimmering, from the night air. Dorian's magic flared, rallying to strike, as the figure took form. As Kaltain Rompier,...
The sight of a tree at night full of glowing Clabbert lifestyles, while decorative, attracted too many Muggles wishing to ask why their neighbours still had their Christmas lights up in June.
I heard from my dear friend Tiberius Ogden, that you can produce a Patronus? For a bonus point... ?Harry raised his wand, looked directly at Umbridge, and imagined her being sacked. Expecto Patronum!...
It was like someone far away calling someone else's name.
Thank God! he said, and kissed her.Kissing Mairelon was much nicer than anything she had ever dared to imagine, despite the headache.
And at last she woke up in the middle of one warm night and said, Yes, but now.
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