Quotes by Magpies My head was a magpie's nest lined with such bright scraps of information. Alice Munro magpies nests information Authors are magpies, echoing each other's words and seizing avidly on anything that glitters. Bergen Evans magpies glitter writing I'm a bit of a magpie: whatever I see or hear or read feeds into the songs. Laura Marling magpies bits song I like sparkles; I think I'm a magpie. Paloma Faith magpies sparkle thinking I have a magpie mind. I like anything that glitters. Roy Thomson, 1st Baron Thomson of Fleet magpies glitter mind We were language's magpies by nature, stealing whatever sounded bright and shiny. Salman Rushdie magpies stealing language