Arabian Quote by Salman Rushdie

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

Marvelous wonders don't have to happen of a sudden, the way they do in the Arabian Nights. They can also take a long time,…

— Ken Kesey

There are a range of women not represented in the Western fairy tale tradition. Husband-beaters are particularly interesting, as well as male pederasts. Children…

— Marina Warner

India was China's teacher in religion and imaginative literature, and the world's teacher in trignometry, quandratic equations, grammar, phonetics, Arabian Nights, animal fables, chess,…

— Lin Yutang

There's a whole slew of wonderful speculation of flying in a fanciful way. Gulliver is one of the central examples; Swift has the hum…

— 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

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

Our traditional stories are based on an aristocratic model without a middle class, whereas The Arabian Nights reflect people living in cities, traders, merchants,…

— Marina Warner

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

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