Quotes by : Susanna Clarke

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

It was as if a door had opened somewhere. Or possibly a series of doors. There was a sensation as of....

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

In peacetime some sort of introduction is generally required to make a person's acquaintance in war a....

But the other Ministers considered that to employ a magician was one thing, novelists were quite another....

Oh! And they read English novels! David! Did you ever look into an English novel? Well, do not trouble....

It may be laid down as a general rule that if a man begins to sing, no one will take any notice of his....

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

Where have they gone?" "Wherever magicians used to go. Behind the sky. On the other side of the rain.....

For the rest of the night he sat by himself under the elm-tree. Until this moment it had never seemed....