Quotes from book
The Prestige

The Prestige
Christopher Priest

The Prestige is a 1995 novel by British writer Christopher Priest.

Christopher Priest photo

“The magician takes the ordinary something and makes it do something extraordinary. Now you're looking for the secret… but you wont find it, because of course you're not really looking. You don't really want to know. You want to be fooled.”

Christopher Priest book The Prestige

Source: The Prestige

Similar authors

Christopher Priest photo
Christopher Priest 1
British speculative fiction writer 1943
Robert A. Heinlein photo
Robert A. Heinlein 557
American science fiction author
Arthur C. Clarke photo
Arthur C. Clarke 207
British science fiction writer, science writer, inventor, u…
Elias Canetti photo
Elias Canetti 43
Bulgarian-born Swiss and British jewish modernist novelist,…
David Foster Wallace photo
David Foster Wallace 185
American fiction writer and essayist
V.S. Naipaul photo
V.S. Naipaul 34
Trinidadian-British writer of Indo-Nepalese ancestry
William Golding photo
William Golding 79
British novelist, poet, playwright and Nobel Prize for Lite…
Isaac Asimov photo
Isaac Asimov 303
American writer and professor of biochemistry at Boston Uni…
Arthur Conan Doyle photo
Arthur Conan Doyle 166
Scottish physician and author
Kazuo Ishiguro photo
Kazuo Ishiguro 76
Japanese-born British author