--- title: "5 Carpet Quotes By Marina Warner" description: "5 Carpet quotes by Marina Warner. Plus more from Marina Warner and more Carpet sayings from other authors." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/983/marina-warner-10971_book_one-of-the-metaphors-of-the-book-is-the_615523.jpg" --- > [One of the metaphors of the book is the carpet. Not just the flying carpet, but the carpet as a woven surface…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/marina-warner/one-of-the-metaphors-of-the-book-is-the-carpet-not-just-the-flying/) [Marina Warner](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/marina-warner/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/983/marina-warner-10971_book_one-of-the-metaphors-of-the-book-is-the_615523.jpg) > [For example, John Law's Mississippi Company venture printed shares, and the money had gone up in smoke when it had been inscribed…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/marina-warner/for-example-john-law-s-mississippi-company-venture-printed-shares-and/) [Marina Warner](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/marina-warner/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/0e0/marina-warner-10971_arabian_for-example-john-law-s-mississippi-compa_780020.jpg) > [I see the carpet reflecting that narratological structure of the storytelling, with Scheherazade as the outside frame story on the outside, with…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/marina-warner/i-see-the-carpet-reflecting-that-narratological-structure-of-the/) [Marina Warner](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/marina-warner/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/336/marina-warner-10971_carpet_i-see-the-carpet-reflecting-that-narrato_1145038.jpg) > [One of the things I try to do is try to make repetitions, rhymes, and mirrorings across the subject matter of my…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/marina-warner/one-of-the-things-i-try-to-do-is-try-to-make-repetitions-rhymes-and/) [Marina Warner](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/marina-warner/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/4ed/marina-warner-10971_all-kinds_one-of-the-things-i-try-to-do-is-try-to_1631300.jpg) > [Many of the enchanted things in the book are lamps, carpets, sofas, gems, brass rings. It is a rather different landscape than…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/marina-warner/many-of-the-enchanted-things-in-the-book-are-lamps-carpets-sofas-gems/) [Marina Warner](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/marina-warner/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/b1e/marina-warner-10971_ambiance_many-of-the-enchanted-things-in-the-book_2004601.jpg) ## Other authors on Carpet ## More by Marina Warner > [“Ectoplasm is shapeless, it is “informe,” a kind of primordial paste—and to show itself as this, it annexes semiotic markers that designate intermediate spirit…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/marina-warner/ectoplasm-is-shapeless-it-is-informe-a-kind-of-primordial-paste-and/) [Marina Warner](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/marina-warner/) > [I am not a great believer in dialectical struggle. I am much more of a fusion person. I see it as a dialogue, or…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/marina-warner/i-am-not-a-great-believer-in-dialectical-struggle-i-am-much-more-of-a/) [Marina Warner](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/marina-warner/) > [I was brought up a Catholic and I was quite fervent, because I was sent to a convent school.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/marina-warner/i-was-brought-up-a-catholic-and-i-was-quite-fervent-because-i-was/) [Marina Warner](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/marina-warner/) > [The female form provides the solution in which the essence itself is held; she is passio, and acted upon, the male is actio, the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/marina-warner/the-female-form-provides-the-solution-in-which-the-essence-itself-is/) [Marina Warner](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/marina-warner/) > [Love can make you turn on yourself, and it can do harmful things to you. It's a deep lesson in human psychology, as with…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/marina-warner/love-can-make-you-turn-on-yourself-and-it-can-do-harmful-things-to/) [Marina Warner](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/marina-warner/) > [There is a theory, that I rather subscribe to. The frame story implies that if he doesn't change, she will kill him. It's all…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/marina-warner/there-is-a-theory-that-i-rather-subscribe-to-the-frame-story-implies/) [Marina Warner](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/marina-warner/) > [Creating simplicity often makes the heart leap; order has been restored, the crooked made straight. But order is understanding that things cannot be made…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/marina-warner/creating-simplicity-often-makes-the-heart-leap-order-has-been/) [Marina Warner](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/marina-warner/) > [I avoid looking in the mirror.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/marina-warner/i-avoid-looking-in-the-mirror/) [Marina Warner](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/marina-warner/) > [The other thing about the Nights is that it is quite racist. One parentheses is that I think this is one of the negative…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/marina-warner/the-other-thing-about-the-nights-is-that-it-is-quite-racist-one/) [Marina Warner](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/marina-warner/) > [The tales are quite hard to remember and I found that going back to it between bouts of writing fiction, I was having to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/marina-warner/the-tales-are-quite-hard-to-remember-and-i-found-that-going-back-to/) [Marina Warner](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/marina-warner/) > [One of the metaphors of the book is the carpet. Not just the flying carpet, but the carpet as a woven surface in which…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/marina-warner/one-of-the-metaphors-of-the-book-is-the-carpet-not-just-the-flying/) [Marina Warner](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/marina-warner/) > [The more one knows fairy tales the less fantastical they appear; they can be vehicles of the grimmest realism, expressing hope against all the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/marina-warner/the-more-one-knows-fairy-tales-the-less-fantastical-they-appear-they/) [Marina Warner](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/marina-warner/) > [If you want to learn about a culture, you look at what buildings the people lived in but you also want to know about…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/marina-warner/if-you-want-to-learn-about-a-culture-you-look-at-what-buildings-the/) [Marina Warner](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/marina-warner/) > [I love titles and organizing chains of ideas. I like that very much.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/marina-warner/i-love-titles-and-organizing-chains-of-ideas-i-like-that-very-much/) [Marina Warner](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/marina-warner/for-example-john-law-s-mississippi-company-venture-printed-shares-and/) [Marina Warner](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/marina-warner/) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/carpet/marina-warner/#itemlist", "name": "5 Carpet Quotes By Marina Warner", "numberOfItems": 5, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "One of the metaphors of the book is the carpet. 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