{"author":"Susanna Clarke","author_id":"Susanna+Clarke","total_quotes":43,"quotes":[{"text":"Where have they gone?' 'Wherever magicians used to go. Behind the sky. On the other side of the rain.","author":"Susanna Clarke","tags":["fantasy","historical-fiction"],"id":17187,"author_id":"Susanna+Clarke"},{"text":"He said, 'Were he only like his sister—what a difference that would make! For there never was such a sweet and gentle lady! I hear her footsteps, as she goes about the world. I hear the swish-swish-swish of her silken gown and the jingle-jangle of the silver chain about her neck. Her smile is full of comfort and her eyes are kind and happy! How I long to see her!' 'Who, sir?' asked Paramore, puzzled. 'Why, his sister, John. His sister.","author":"Susanna Clarke","tags":["ankh","death","eyes","lady","neil-gaiman","sandman","sister","smile"],"id":47733,"author_id":"Susanna+Clarke"},{"text":"For, though the room was silent, the silence of half a hundred cats is a peculiar thing, like fifty individual silences all piled one on top of another.","author":"Susanna Clarke","tags":["cats"],"id":48030,"author_id":"Susanna+Clarke"},{"text":"Ha!' he thought. “That will teach me to meddle with magic meant for kings! Norrell is right. Some magic is not meant for ordinary magicians. Presumably John Uskglass knew what to do with this horrible knowledge. I do not. Should I tell someone? The Duke? He will not thank me for it.","author":"Susanna Clarke","tags":["magic"],"id":68952,"author_id":"Susanna+Clarke"},{"text":"Captain Harcourt-Bruce was not only dashing, handsome, and brave, he was also rather romantic. The reappearance of magic in England thrilled him immensely. He was a great reader of the more exciting sort of history - and his head was full of ancient battles in which the English were outnumbered by the French and doomed to die, when all at once would be heard the sound of strange, unearthly music, and upon a hilltop would appear the Raven King in his tall, black helmet with it's mantling of raven-feathers streaming in the wind; he would gallop down the hillside on his tall, black horse with a hundred human knights and a hundred fairy knights at his back, and he would defeat the French by magic.That was Captain Harcourt-Bruce's idea of a magician. That was the sort of thing which he now expected to see reproduced on every battlefield on the Continent. So when he saw Mr Norrell in his drawing-room in Hanoversquare, and after he had sat and watched Mr Norrell peevishly complain to his footman, first that the cream in his tea was too creamy, and next that it was too watery - well, I shall not surprize you when I say he was somewhat disappointed. In fact he was so downcast by the whole undertaking that Admiral Paycocke, a bluff old gentleman, felt rather sorry for him and only had the heart to laugh at him and tease him very moderately about it.","author":"Susanna Clarke","tags":["disillusionment","humor","magic","magician","tea"],"id":72489,"author_id":"Susanna+Clarke"},{"text":"Time and I have quarrelled. All hours are midnight now. I had a clock and a watch, but I destroyed them both. I could not bear the way they mocked me.","author":"Susanna Clarke","tags":["insanity","madness","time"],"id":78355,"author_id":"Susanna+Clarke"},{"text":"When you're writing, you're creating something out of nothing ... A successful piece of writing is like doing a successful piece of m.","author":"Susanna Clarke","tags":["creative-process","magic","writing"],"id":81005,"author_id":"Susanna+Clarke"},{"text":"I am, as far as I can tell, about a month behind Lord Byron. In every town we stop at we discover innkeepers, postillions, officials, burghers, potboys, and all kinds and sorts of ladies whose brains still seem somewhat deranged from their brief exposure to his lordship. And though my companions are careful to tell people that I am that dreadful being, an English magician, I am clearly nothing in comparison to an English poet and everywhere I go I enjoy the reputation- quite new to me, I assure you- of the quiet, good Englishman, who makes no noise and is no trouble to any one...","author":"Susanna Clarke","tags":["jonathan-strange-mr-norrell","lord-byron","magic"],"id":86619,"author_id":"Susanna+Clarke"},{"text":"When you're writing, you're creating something out of nothing ... A successful piece of writing is like doing a successful piece of magic.', 6 March 2012].","author":"Susanna Clarke","tags":["creative-process","magic","writing"],"id":95375,"author_id":"Susanna+Clarke"},{"text":"Can a magician kill a man by magic?” Lord Wellington asked Strange.Strange frowned. He seemed to dislike the question. “I suppose a magician might,” he admitted, “but a gentleman never could.","author":"Susanna Clarke","tags":["gentleman","honor","killing","magic"],"id":102212,"author_id":"Susanna+Clarke"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":43,"pages":5,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}