What others call magic realism is normal and an everyday thing to me. Laura Esquivel More Quotes by Laura Esquivel More Quotes From Laura Esquivel To transform yourself is to transform your destiny. Laura Esquivel transformyouryourselfdestiny Tradition is an element that enters into play with destiny, because you are born into a particular family - Jewish or Islamic or Christian or Mexican - and your family determines to some extent what you are expected to become. And society is always there attempting to determine the role we will play within it. Laura Esquivel youtraditionfamilysociety As a very young girl, I understood that the interior activities of the home are as significant as the exterior activities of society. Laura Esquivel interiorsocietygirlhome I watch cooking change the cook, just as it transforms the food. Laura Esquivel watchjustcookingchangefood For me, love is the most important force. It moves the universe. Laura Esquivel meuniverselove-islove In film you can use images exclusively and narrate a whole story very quickly, but you don't always so easily find the form in cinema to dig deeper into human thoughts and emotions. And in a novel you can much more easily express a character's inner thoughts and feelings. Laura Esquivel thoughtsyoucinemacharacter I can't speak for readers in general, but personally I like to read stories behind which there is some truth, something real and above all, something emotional. I don't like to read essays on literature; I don't like to read critical or rational or impersonal or cold disquisitions on subjects. Laura Esquivel coldspeakliteraturetruth There are still some natural forces that everybody understands. Technology and industry have distanced people from nature and magic and human values. Laura Esquivel magictechnologynaturepeople What has never changed, what is always present and what is, in the end, what sustains us is that energy that I talk about in 'Like Water for Chocolate...' that loving energy. Without that, I wouldn't have had the strength to keep going and enjoy life. Laura Esquivel enjoy-lifestrengthwaterlife
