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
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