Human beings have always told their histories and truths…

Many people don’t realize the extent to which stories influence our behavior and even shape our culture. Think about how Bible stories teach the…

— Lawrence Shapiro

“ The Prodigal Son They gave the deep end of their heart--a hue of crimson red, They whispered their desire and offered up their…

— Shannon L. Alder

Everywhere I am hindered of meeting God in my brother, because he has shut his own temple doors and recites fables merely of his…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

My parents read to me a lot as a kid, and I started writing very early, probably spurred on by Aesop's fables. Then they…

— Jeff VanderMeer

History fades into fable; fact becomes clouded with doubt and controversy; the inscription molders from the tablet: the statue falls from the pedestal. Columns,…

— Washington Irving

[Jorge Luis Borges] had short stories, and I was trying to learn how to write short stories, and then he had these things in…

— Sandra Cisneros

The smaller the mind, the greater the ego.

— Tom Clancy

Equals make the best friends.

— Aesop

We are full of dreams [...] We long for the unattainable. We believe in the nonsense of fables. There is no pure love; there…

— David Gemmell

“Fables from before the Anaheiming.”

— William Gibson

Imagine an American Hans Christian Andersen, conceive of the Brothers Grimm living in Missouri, and you will approximate Howard Schwartz, a fable-maker and fable-gatherer…

— Cynthia Ozick

I would rather have written Fables in Slang than be President.

— William Allen White

No theory is too false, no fable too absurd, no superstition too degrading for acceptance when it has become embedded in common belief. Men…

— Henry George

There are, after all, atheists who say they wish the fable were true but are unable to suspend the requisite disbelief, or who have…

— Christopher Hitchens

Poetical taste is the only magician whose wand is not broken. No hand, except its own, can dissolve the fabric of beauty in which…

— Robert Aris Willmott