In childhood, we used to read stories from the Arabian…

The other thing about the Nights is that it is quite racist. One parentheses is that I think this is one of the negative…

— Marina Warner

Sometimes great, banned works defy the censor's description and impose themselves on the world - 'Ulysses,' 'Lolita,' the 'Arabian Nights.'

— Salman Rushdie

Whatever experimental film aromas cloaked my movies were because I'm a gleefully clumsy, primitive filmmaker. I really like traditional pleasingly narrative films, but I…

— Guy Maddin

“The Isle of Pines was Circe's isle, with white marble columns here and there in the dark, green, and pirates would be dueling with…

— Henry Kuttner

“If men would steadily observe realities only, and not allow themselves to be deluded, life, to compare it with such things as we know,…

— Henry David Thoreau

“It should have been the Arabian Nights, but to Bond, seeing it first above the tops of trams and above the great scars of…

— Ian Fleming

“In this way he continued until he was fourteen years of age, when his extraordinary destiny took him by the hand, and led him,…

— Arabian Nights

“Where are you going this hot day, Mis’ DeJong?” Selina sat up very straight. “To Bagdad, Mrs. Pool.” “To — Where’s that? What for?” “To sell…

— Edna Ferber

Many of the enchanted things in the book are lamps, carpets, sofas, gems, brass rings. It is a rather different landscape than the fairy…

— Marina Warner

It is possible that our race may be an accident, in a meaningless universe, living its brief life uncared for, on this dark, cooling…

— Clarence Day

I go back to the reading room, where I sink down in the sofa and into the world of The Arabian Nights. Slowly, like…

— Haruki Murakami

“It will be like a story from the Arabian Nights," he said. "Only an Oriental could have planned it. It does not belong to…

— Frances Hodgson Burnett

Scheherazade, of course, was always in the back of my mind, because she's also a storyteller identified as female who tells a lot of…

— Marina Warner

For example, John Law's Mississippi Company venture printed shares, and the money had gone up in smoke when it had been inscribed objects. The…

— Marina Warner

Shams and delusions are esteemed for soundest truths, while reality is fabulous. If men would steadily observe realities only, and not allow themselves to…

— Henry David Thoreau