Quotes by Susanna Clarke

Susanna Clarke

..The argument he was conducting with his neighbor as to whether the English magician had gone mad because he was a magician, or because he was English.

Argument

Gone

Mad

A piece of writing is like a piece of magic. You create something out of nothing.

Art

Inspirational

Life

After two hours it stopped raining and in the same moment the spell broke, which Peroquet and the Admiral and Captain Jumeau knew by a curious twist of their senses, as if they had tasted a string quartet, or been, for a moment, deafened by the sight of colour blue.

Blue

Rain

Sight

All books are doors; and some of them are wardrobes.

Book

Doors

Wardrobe

An explorer cannot stay at home reading maps other men have made.

Home

Men

Reading

And how shall I think of you?’ He considered a moment and then laughed. ‘Think of me with my nose in a book!

Book

Noses

Thinking

And the name of the one shall be Fearfulness. And the name of the other shall be Arrogance… Well, clearly you are not Fearfulness, so I suppose you must be Arrogance.’ This was not very polite.

Arrogance

Names

Polite

Bryon tilted his head to a very odd angle, half-closed his eyes and composed his features to suggest that he was about to expire from chronic indigestion.

Eye

Half

Odd

But when the fairy sang the whole world listened to him. Stephen felt clouds pause in their passing; he felt sleeping hills shift and murmur; he felt cold mists dance. He understood for the first time that the world is not dumb at all, but merely waiting for someone to speak to it in a language it understands. In the fairy’s song the earth recognized the names by which it called itself.

Clouds

Sleep

Song

But, though French, she was also very brave.

Brave

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Angel

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Arrogance

Art

Asking

Bankers

Bears

Blue

Book

Brain

Brave

Bullets

Cat

Character

Cities

Clothes

Clouds

Color

Comfort

Complaining

Country

Creation

Criticism

Curiosity

Curious

Doe

Doors

Drawing

Dream

Drunk

Dukes

Dumb

Dutch

Easy

Evil

Eye

Faces

Facts

Fairy

Fall

Feelings

Gentleman

Girl

Gone

Gowns

Habit

Hair

Half

Handsome

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Quotes by Susanna Clarke

Susanna Clarke

..The argument he was conducting with his neighbor as to whether the English magician had gone mad because he was a magician, or because he was English.

A piece of writing is like a piece of magic. You create something out of nothing.

After two hours it stopped raining and in the same moment the spell broke, which Peroquet and the Admiral and Captain Jumeau knew by a curious twist of their senses, as if they had tasted a string quartet, or been, for a moment, deafened by the sight of colour blue.

All books are doors; and some of them are wardrobes.

An explorer cannot stay at home reading maps other men have made.

And how shall I think of you?’ He considered a moment and then laughed. ‘Think of me with my nose in a book!

And the name of the one shall be Fearfulness. And the name of the other shall be Arrogance… Well, clearly you are not Fearfulness, so I suppose you must be Arrogance.’ This was not very polite.

Bryon tilted his head to a very odd angle, half-closed his eyes and composed his features to suggest that he was about to expire from chronic indigestion.

But, though French, she was also very brave.

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