Magic has a logic, like algebra. Once you get to know it, it’s easy. If this, then that. You write with a pencil, you don’t make frog soup with it.
– Catherynne M Valente
Related Quotes:
- In the story of the prince and the frog, there’s always a frog. This story … it has no frog. – Anne Rice
- Write. Write write write write WRITE. Write. Now.(This is an inspirational writing quote.) – Jen Lynn Anderson
- Explaining a joke is like dissecting a frog. You understand it better but the frog dies in the process. – EB White
- A body can only deliver up the truth its bones know, Its blood, which is its history. – Catherynne M Valente
- There ain’t no point in making soup unless others eat it. Soup needs another mouth to taste it, another heart to be warmed by it. – Kate DiCamillo
- Yeah. I’m the fly in the soup. I don’t like it any better than you do. Flies don’t like being swamped in soup, especially when it’s hot. – Rex Stout
- All Librarians are Secret Masters of Severe Magic. Goes with the territory. – Catherynne M Valente
- A Bank is but a college of Fiscal Magic. – Catherynne M Valente
- Music has more rules than math or magic and it’s twice as dangerous as both or either. – Catherynne M Valente
- The burnt-off connectors and shadows where Ravan once filled my spaces-” those, I think, are the sensations of grief. – Catherynne M Valente
- That is the trouble with standing up to people, of course. Once you start doing it, you can hardly stop. – Catherynne M Valente
- Write, write, write! Get your you-know-what in the chair and write more books: write the books of your heart and don’t let stress steal your joy. – Sarra Cannon
- Magic is only unexplained science. Science is explained magic. When I study science, I study magic. When I study magic, I study science. – C JoyBell C
- Know your magic, trust your magic, use your magic and know that you are a manifestation of life’s magic. – Rasheed Ogunlaru
- I have all the books I could need, and what more could I need than books? – Catherynne M Valente
- So a half-breed goatsnake, a Yith, and a Ghast walk into a bar. – Catherynne M Valente
- We like the wrong sorts of girls, they wrote. They are usually the ones worth writing about. – Catherynne M Valente
- Nothing real is pretty, she said. Only a doll is pretty. And a pretty doll drinks out of a tiny cup forever. A woman wants a big cup. – Catherynne M Valente
- I got a heart like a half bottle of no-label whiskey.Nothing to brag on,but enough for you, and all your friends, too. – Catherynne M Valente
- Dreams keep the heart alive. – Catherynne M Valente
- A book is a door into another place and another heart and another world. – Catherynne M Valente
- I expect everyone in Boston has something like that ring, which is why I am glad I have never been to Boston. – Catherynne M Valente
- I have to know, I have to or else you will just rule me until the end of everything because you know and I do not. – Catherynne M Valente
- When the world changes, it stashes us away where we can’t make it run the other way again. – Catherynne M Valente
- there is only this world, as it is now, and there has never been another, can never be any other. – Catherynne M Valente
- you have to have the right sort of stone. Peridot for mothers, girasol for lovers, sapphire for sadness, and garnet for joy. – Catherynne M Valente
- We all live inside the terrible engine of authority, and it grinds and shrieks and burns so that no one will say: lines on maps are silly. – Catherynne M Valente
- The worst thing in the world is having to go back to the dark you shook off. – Catherynne M Valente
- Memory is like that. It alters itself so that girlsare always trapped under the earth, waiting in the dark. – Catherynne M Valente
- Perhaps memory is a thing that everyone involved has to work at, like stitching up a big quilt out of everything that ever happened to you. – Catherynne M Valente
- Be my friend and love me, for the world is terrible lonely and I am sad. – Catherynne M Valente
- Anything is a poem if you say it often enough. – Catherynne M Valente
- But cheating has always been the purview of fairies, and as we are about to enter their domain, we ought to act in accordance with local customs. – Catherynne M Valente
- Don’t worry, my little lump of rock. Everybody gets a chance to choose. Or else where would irony come from? – Catherynne M Valente
- She had a highly developed sense of humor which in some lights looked a bit like a sense of justice. – Catherynne M Valente
- It’s Survival of Them Who’s Best at Nicking Things, girl! – Catherynne M Valente
- Still life is boring. Never stand still! Jumping bean life! – Catherynne M Valente
- A tale may have exactly three beginnings: one for the audience, one for the artist, and one for the poor bastard who has to live in it. – Catherynne M Valente
- Any story told is a lie cunningly told to hide the real world from the poor bastards who live in it. – Catherynne M Valente
- We are halves, but we make an infinite whole. – Catherynne M Valente