The store of fairy tales, that blue chamber where stories lie waiting to be rediscovered, holds out the promise of just those creative enchantments, not only for its own characters caught in its own plotlines; it offers magical metamorphoses to… — Marina Warner Copy Share Image
Although the stories are very present in my book, and very present in my mind, what I was most interested in was the question of why it had attracted such a following in the 18th Century. It's less mysterious that… — Marina Warner Copy Share Image
“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… — Marina Warner Copy Share
I am not a great believer in dialectical struggle. I am much more of a fusion person. I see it as a dialogue, or… — Marina Warner Copy Share
I was brought up a Catholic and I was quite fervent, because I was sent to a convent school. — Marina Warner Copy Share
The female form provides the solution in which the essence itself is held; she is passio, and acted upon, the male is actio, the… — Marina Warner Copy Share
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… — Marina Warner Copy Share
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… — Marina Warner Copy Share
Creating simplicity often makes the heart leap; order has been restored, the crooked made straight. But order is understanding that things cannot be made… — Marina Warner Copy Share
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 Copy Share
The tales are quite hard to remember and I found that going back to it between bouts of writing fiction, I was having to… — Marina Warner Copy Share
One of the metaphors of the book is the carpet. Not just the flying carpet, but the carpet as a woven surface in which… — Marina Warner Copy Share
The more one knows fairy tales the less fantastical they appear; they can be vehicles of the grimmest realism, expressing hope against all the… — Marina Warner Copy Share
If you want to learn about a culture, you look at what buildings the people lived in but you also want to know about… — Marina Warner Copy Share
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 Copy Share
