Fables from before the Anaheiming.

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

For kind of sophisticated art I'm interested in, the larger structural rebuke has to be so subtle that it has to be distributed at…

— Junot Diaz

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

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

“ 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

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

Not stories told by wolf or man to frighten children, of Wolfbane and of werewolves, of grasht and goblins and of silly vampires, fables…

— David Clement-Davies