“You are strong, you can endure the toughest of winds because you are eager to meet yourself.” — Maya Realm Copy Share Image
What others call magic realism is normal and an everyday thing to me. — Laura Esquivel Copy Share Image
“Running amok, just like a phoenix you obtain this new life arising from the ashes of the old one.” — Maya Realm Copy Share Image
“Illuminated from within we radiate the surface as we are all the one — knowing that in the one is the all.” — Maya Realm Copy Share Image
“Carefully they replaced the soil and covered the entire grave with uprooted grass. Neither one had spoken a word.” — Toni Morrison Copy Share Image
All things in my novels are real for me. Some western critics said that Garcia Marquez's novels are magic realism. However, I… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“He wishes he were a skilled poet, it would fit his chosen image perfectly; the poor, tragic, tortured artiste. But he has… — Curtis Ackie Copy Share Image
“People tend to focus on the "magic" more than the "realism." But, like all fiction, fantasy arrives at truth via the road… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
“The way you have been treated was profoundly wrong, but all of it was testing your appetite to withstand, and that you… — Maya Realm Copy Share Image
I have always loved magic realism as a form of writing. I have also been fascinated for a long time with the… — Alan Lightman Copy Share Image
My mother learned that she was carrying me at about the same time the Second World War was declared; with the family… — Angela Carter Copy Share Image
I actually admire some of the books by a lot of the writers who write magic realism very much, but it's not… — Melvyn Bragg Copy Share Image
Life is very mysterious and there are many things we don't know. And there are elements of magic realism in every culture,… — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
“As though eavesdropping, the whistling wind refuses to speak above a whisper. The winding road is cut into the side of the… — Curtis Ackie Copy Share Image
“So many people mean nothing to us, we pass one another by without acknowledgement, without comprehending the gifts many have to offer,… — Tami Egonu Copy Share Image
“We have to bring in the railroad,' he said. That was the first time the word had ever been heard in Macondo.… — Gabriel García Márquez Copy Share Image
When people use the term magic realism, usually they only mean 'magic' and they don't hear 'realism', whereas the way in which… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
The core of the film [Hunt for the Wilderpeople] is that relationship. Whether they're getting on or whether they're not. If that… — Sam Neill Copy Share Image
“He never looked better, nor had he been loved more, not had the breeding of his animals been wilder. There was a… — Gabriel García Márquez Copy Share Image
Well, I really want to encourage a kind of fantasy, a kind of magic. I love the term magic realism, whoever invented… — Terry Gilliam Copy Share Image
“The air was so damp that fish could have come in through doors and swum out the windows, floating through the atmosphere… — Gabriel García Márquez Copy Share Image
“Look, this isn't magic realism. This is not another story about superstitious island people and their primitive beliefs. No. You don't get… — Kei Miller Copy Share Image
“I have been seeing dragons again. Last night, hunched on a beaver dam, one held a body like a badly held cocktail;… — Michael Ondaatje Copy Share Image
“More interestingly, it could be argued that, if fantasy (and debatably the literature of the fantastic as a whole) has a purpose… — John Clute Copy Share Image
India went through a dramatic revolution after the '90s when our economy started opening up for the first time and Indians were… — Karan Bajaj Copy Share Image
I am not into the unrealistic realm of magic realism where birds talk. — Vikas Swarup Copy Share Image
People don't like to say Fantasy they say Magic Realism which means Fantasy written by somebody I went to university with. — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
A masterwork. A particularly American magic realism that touches the heart of race and childhood in our country; it's 100 Years of… — Ellen Kushner Copy Share Image