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
If you created a place in air where they're breathing and running around in, and then they speak in that fictional milieu,… — Fred D'Aguiar Copy Share Image
To have a young person speak back, to hand him the microphone for his first-person utterances, you'd have to have an imagined… — Fred D'Aguiar Copy Share Image
“A child screams with joy and a child screams with pain, and the difference is in the timbre of that scream. Decibels of joy… — Fred D'Aguiar Copy Share Image
Bruce Lee, before he fought, he would try to visualize how the fight would go, because he was visualizing a victorious path out of… — Fred D'Aguiar Copy Share Image
There's an imperative to make sure you distinguish fiction from the fact, because if the fact is doing the work, why did you do… — Fred D'Aguiar 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 some way. — Fred D'Aguiar Copy Share Image
When you walk to the end of a fiction, its procedure is 1) intuitive; and 2) emotional. Its intelligence is emotional, I think. — Fred D'Aguiar Copy Share Image
People who are suffering have to visualize ways out of tragedy to actually get out of it. — Fred D'Aguiar Copy Share Image
“The power of the preacher's command over the beast intrigues them more than the threat of imminent violence against one of their own, in… — Fred D'Aguiar Copy Share Image
Eliot said that "genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood." What he meant by that is, the emotional understanding comes before you understand… — Fred D'Aguiar Copy Share Image
People seem very comfortable having a kind of Cheesecake Factory-type of life. — Fred D'Aguiar Copy Share Image
I love the fact that I can go to a museum now that tells me I'm in the postmodern age. — Fred D'Aguiar Copy Share Image
If you created a place in air where they're breathing and running around in, and then they speak in that fictional milieu, it's perfectly… — Fred D'Aguiar Copy Share Image
