"I’ve always loved fairytales, and I’ve loved the concept of, um, some of the best parts of a lot of stories are the beginning."

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When people use the term magic realism, usually they only mean 'magic' and they don't hear 'realism', whereas the way in which magic realism actually works is for the magic to be rooted in the real. It's both things. It's not just a fairytale moment. It's the surrealism that arises out of the real.

— Salman Rushdie