I don't like allegory.

You can make the Ring into an allegory of our own time, if you like: and allegory of the inevitable fate that waits for…

— J. R. R. Tolkien

I don't like sci-fi/fantasy.

— Ben Feldman

I don't like to eat in front of people.

— John Torode

I don't like fake people.

— Wanderlei Silva

Science fiction is a weird category, because it's the only area of fiction I can think of where the story is not of primary…

— Donald E. Westlake

“The Durhannians' countenance lifted as is the way of Hope. There was a village elder whose eyes flickered with the light of Understanding. We…

— Laurie Green Westlake

It is remarkable how a man cannot summarize his thoughts in even the most general sort of way without betraying himself completely, without putting…

— Thomas Mann

“Hence all original religions are allegorical, or susceptible of allegory, and, like Janus, have a double face of false and true”

— Percy Bysshe Shelley

I don't feel I have to struggle against allegory. I let the readers do the interpreting.

— Lydia Davis

By a symbol I do not mean an allegory or a sign, but an image that describes in the best possible way the dimly…

— Carl Jung

The fumes of the most disordered imaginations were recorded in their religious code, as special communications of the Deity; and as it could not…

— Thomas Jefferson

A fairytale is not an allegory. There may be allegory in it, but it is not an allegory.

— George MacDonald

Allegories are, in the realm of thought, what ruins are in the realm of things.

— Walter Benjamin

I think cinema is closer to allegories than to reality. It's closer to our dreams.

— Manuel Puig

“However, as a guarantee of its renewed youth, the symbolical phoenix never reappeared before the eyes of the world without having consumed solemnly the…

— Éliphas Lévi