At the end of the day, it's about the best interests of the children. — Marlee Matlin Copy Share Image
“The world is entirely magical, the only illusion is that it isn't...” — Lydia Andal Copy Share Image
“I don’t get it. I keep praying. I keep asking for help. And yet, no answer.” — Arabella Sveinsdottir Copy Share Image
“Look at the world, Georg, look at the world before you've filled yourself with too much physics and chemistry.” — Jostein Gaarder Copy Share Image
“The underlying melody via every rock, plant, animal, sky and star, inside the water, from the dirt, through the light: only love… — Melina Sempill Watts Copy Share Image
“I pass a still-warm honey bourbon bread pudding over the head of the chatty old woman to the man behind her, for… — Ellen Pauley Goff Copy Share Image
Magical realism as a declaration in the text is usually when someone can't speak and then they must be magically reinvigorated in… — Fred D'Aguiar Copy Share Image
For years, in the wake of Rushdie, I had imagined magical realism to be the last refuge of the non-resident Indian. — Amitava Kumar Copy Share Image
At the end of the day, it's about the reader's attachment to and belief in the magical elements that make or break… — Tea Obreht Copy Share Image
“I just wanted one more day." More tears welled up in her eyes. "But it would never be enough. I could keep… — Cindi Madsen Copy Share Image
“But if two people do almost nothing except search for one another, it's hardly surprising if they run across each other by… — Jostein Gaarder 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
“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
“She sent me a sunny smile, and what a smile, George; it was a smile that could have melted the whole world,… — Jostein Gaarder Copy Share Image
“I asked about the price of the guitars, reminding him that if expected me to man the cash register, I’d need to… — Brenda Sutton Rose Copy Share Image
“The rich died, too, disappointing all those who thought that somehow they didn't. Peter Lakes had no illusions about mortality. He knew… — Mark Helprin 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 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 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
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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“To be free means always leaving...or returning to a place where leaves never fall.” — Rich Shapero Copy Share Image
