Magical realism Quote by Mohsin Hamid

For Borges, the core of reality lay in books; reading books, writing books, talking about books. In a visceral way, he was conscious of…

— Alberto Manguel

“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

I think being raised within a Mexican Catholic family made magical realism a very natural part of who I am as a person and…

— Daniel Olivas

When I was starting out, science fiction was a little genre over there, which only a few people read. But now -- where are…

— Doris Lessing

All things in my novels are real for me. Some western critics said that Garcia Marquez's novels are magic realism. However, I believe that…

— Haruki Murakami

To think, analyze and invent, he [Pierre Menard] also wrote me, “are not anomalous acts, but the normal respiration of the intelligence. To glorify…

— Jorge Luis Borges

“Surrealism also refuses the representation of reality: reality can only be; its existence proves its reality. Fiction thereby becomes impossible or is, by definition,…

— Michael Richardson

Magic realism - somebody used that phrase the other day that is familiar with South American literature. That rang a bell. It resonates with…

— Sam Neill

People don't like to say Fantasy they say Magic Realism which means Fantasy written by somebody I went to university with.

— Terry Pratchett

“One day I found him amid large packages from which spilled attractive, glossy paperbacks with mythical covers. He had tried to use, as a…

— Stanisław Lem

This strange business of what it is to be a writer is this increasingly insane world in which we live, in which surrealism, it…

— Salman Rushdie

He knew what he knew: that the real world was full of magic, so magical worlds could easily be real.

— Salman Rushdie