“We’ll start on the ruins when you come back.” “Looks like a big job.” “Those are the most important.” — Valerie Dunsmore Copy Share Image
“We prayed the moon would unstopper long enough to suck us through to the other side so we could see how dull… — Lindsay Hunter Copy Share Image
I love 'Exit West' by Mohsin Hamid. It's a magical realism retelling of the refugee experience, where people find these magical doors… — Julien Baker Copy Share Image
“When you write it, don't write it in the manner of a spooky story. Don't try to give an explanation. Just say… — David Mitchell Copy Share Image
Like Woody Allen actually does this a lot in his movies, its kind of called magical realism where he has just kind… — Tony Hale Copy Share Image
“Troy smiled down at her, and her heart jumped into her throat. The lights turned his skin colors. Red, green, blue. Glimpses… — Cindi Madsen Copy Share Image
“This is the magical realism of NAFTA - Mexico, the birthplace of corn, is now importing surplus corn from el Norte -… — John Vaillant Copy Share Image
“I wanted to kiss you for a long time, and I decided that might be my only chance. I’ve been miserable ever… — Cindi Madsen Copy Share Image
I think that it's important to try to keep reality. I think that Gabriel Garcia Marquez speaks a lot about reality in… — Walter Mosley Copy Share Image
I have been definitely influenced more by Latin American writers than by any other type of writer. They are very close in… — Jessica Hagedorn Copy Share Image
Obviously all religions get corrupted by man. The initial ideas are interesting but once they get organized they seem to become about… — Matt Dillon Copy Share Image
“Krisztina played the song. It was a lament made of eight notes, repeated. It was an empty melody. It sounded elemental too;… — Simon Avery Copy Share Image
“She was a stranger. She came from a more beautiful fairytale than ours. But she’d managed to find her way into our… — Jostein Gaarder Copy Share Image
The Americans only like things they can label, even if it kills them. Think of those poor Latin American writers. Some of… — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
“Apparently, we're all in the frame," I heard Harry murmur somewhere behind me. And I whirled back to him. Innate, irrational anger… — Morana Blue Copy Share Image
“Like everyone, I had,on many previous occasions, ignored a half-open door leading elsewhere - in the chilly passages of strange houses, in… — Michel Ajvaz Copy Share Image
“SWAT? For me?" Still trembling, one hand clung to the ambulance gurney, the other held a massive sterilised cotton wool wad under… — Morana Blue Copy Share Image
“Leonardo had also been wrestling with the question of why the sky appears blue, and around that time he had correctly concluded… — Walter Isaacson Copy Share Image
“He hadn't moved. All the crazy-hot activity in the kitchen—waitresses going in and out, cooks going back and forth, the constant thump… — Sarah Addison Allen Copy Share Image
Magical realism is a blending of the unusual or supernatural into an otherwise ordinary setting. And, to me, this perfectly describes the… — Sarah Addison Allen Copy Share Image
“I don't want to live without the sparklers, the brightness. Without that feeling of lying flat on the ground, pressed down with… — Susannah M. Smith Copy Share Image
I gravitate much more toward realism, realism in the work that I do, but magical realism got me hooked on film. I… — Rachel Morrison Copy Share Image
I think being raised within a Mexican Catholic family made magical realism a very natural part of who I am as a… — Daniel Olivas Copy Share Image
“I became my grief. I wept in advance for all the things that would happen, the unimaginable things beyond the horizon of… — Ben Okri Copy Share Image
“The truth is that I feel like a ghost already, and I have to catch my breath each time I think about… — Jostein Gaarder Copy Share Image
“The young doctor was disappointed: he had never had th eopportunity to study the effects of gold cyanide on a cadaver. Dr.… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Crying isn't so bad. I mean, I have a sister..." He paused, and she had the distinct impression he was debating whether… — Ashley Nikole Copy Share Image
As you see, I bear some resentment and some scars from the years of anti-genre bigotry. My own fiction, which moves freely… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
“Relationships are used by the darkness to keep people revolving around the ego’s demands. For a moment, people see the light of… — Donna Goddard Copy Share Image
“Half asleep, he wondered whether that might not have been his happiest day ever, the last, perfect day swelling with the immensity… — Olga Grushin Copy Share Image
“People from the mainland, particularly those from the capital, have always wanted to get married on Finø. Perhaps it has to do… — Peter Høeg Copy Share Image
