Stories, like conjuring tricks, are invented because history is inadequate for our dreams. - Steven Millhauser
I'm conjuring up a little fuck you."-Hannah Rat Queens Vol 1 - Kurtis J Wiebe
What it leads to is the mischief of confusing liturgy with magic -- of imagining there are only a handful of properly effective formulas for conjuring up the mystery, when in fact the mystery is always at work, independent of any formula whatsoever. - Robert Farrar Capon
When I'm writing, I'm waiting to see somebody, and I'm waiting to hear them. It's almost like conjuring spirits out of the air, using your own imaginative instability. - Charles Baxter