Susanna Clarke Quotes

But the other Ministers considered that to employ a magician was one thing, novelists were quite another and they would not stoop to it.

When you're writing, you're creating something out of nothing ... A successful piece of writing is like doing a successful piece of m

It seemed that it was not only live magicians which Mr. Norrell despised. He had taken the measure of all the dead ones too and found them wanting.

Above all remember this: that magic belongs as much to the heart as to the head and everything which is done, should be done from love or joy or righteous anger.

Ha!" cried Dr John contemptuously. "Magic! That is chiefly used for killing Frenchmen, is it not?

It is the right of a traveller to vent their frustration at every minor inconvenience by writing of it to their friends.

[A] smile is the most becomingornament that any lady can wear.

For there was nothing in his eyes but the black night and the cold stars.

I have been quite put out of temper this morning and someone ought to die for it.