An explorer cannot stay at home reading maps other men have made.

- Susanna Clarke

Magic, madam, is like wine and, if you are not used to it, it will make you drunk.

- Susanna Clarke

He understood for the first time that the world is not dumb at all, but merely waiting for someone to speak to it in a language it understands.

- Susanna Clarke

How quickly was every bad thing discovered to be the fault of the previous administration (an evil set of men who wedded general stupidity to wickedn…

- Susanna Clarke

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,”…

- Susanna Clarke

Sing like no one is listening. Love like you’ve never been hurt. Dance like nobody’s watching, and live like it’s heaven on earth.

- Susanna Clarke

It has been remarked (by a lady infinitely cleverer than the present author) how kindly disposed the world in general feels to young people who eithe…

- Susanna Clarke

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.

- Susanna Clarke

I have a scholar's love of silence and solitude. To sit and pass hour after hour in idle chatter with a roomful of strangers is to me the worst sort …

- Susanna Clarke