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
