Arise Quote by Salman Rushdie

“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

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

Magic is a two-way process: you use it to change yourself and in return, it changes you. Letting yourself enter a magical reality is…

— Phil Hine

What others call magic realism is normal and an everyday thing to me.

— Laura Esquivel

“I'm writing a book on magic”, I explain, and I'm asked, “Real magic?” By real magic people mean miracles, thaumaturgical acts, and supernatural powers.…

— Lee Siegel

Magic is real. And reality... it is magical.

— Aleister Crowley

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

— Terry Pratchett

Magical realism is a blending of the unusual or supernatural into an otherwise ordinary setting. And, to me, this perfectly describes the South. 'The…

— Sarah Addison Allen

Magic has universal appeal. I don't believe in magic in the way that I describe in my books, but I'd love it to be…

— J. K. Rowling

Magic consists of creating, by misdirection of the senses, the mental impression of supernatural agency at work. That, and only that, is what modern…

— John Nevil Maskelyne

The illusion of magic is an idealistic fantasy; it exists only in the imagination of the spectator.

— Paul LePaul

I think that magic, at its root, is a very abstract notion. There's no real, approved definition. And, in that sense, it's like love;…

— Drummond Money-Coutts