Deny Quote by Karen Russell

It always felt like I had to be a realist.

— Jack Tatum

Would a watermelon in the midst of a chase sequence not be, in its own organic way, emblematic of our entire misunderstood enterprise? At…

— W. D. Richter

I have made myself what I am. And I would that I could make the red people as great as the conceptions of my…

— Tecumseh

I don't want realism. I want magic! Yes, yes, magic! I try to give that to people. I misrepresent things to them. I don't…

— Tennessee Williams

Once upon a time I owned a watermelon.

— Irving Bacheller

I don't want realism. I want magic! Yes, yes, magic. I try to give that to people. I do misrepresent things. I don't tell…

— Anonymous

“magical realism? Aren’t we all making shit up,”

— Sherman Alexie

I'm into weird kind of, anything that resembles magical realism.

— Daniel Radcliffe

“You say tomato, I saw watermelon.”

— Jenn Reese

People normally view my work as fantasy, which on some level is true, but I do think that my work is more magical realist…

— Shahad Ameen

“People tend to focus on the "magic" more than the "realism." But, like all fiction, fantasy arrives at truth via the road of untruth.”

— Salman Rushdie

Set your fantasies in the here and now and then, if challenged, claim to be writing Magical Realism.

— Neil Gaiman