Borges Quote by Sandra Cisneros

“If you listen to the fables in your childhood, that is great; if you listen to the fables when you grow up, that is…

— Mehmet Murat ildan

“Martin, fables are possibly one of the most interesting literary forms ever invented. Do you know what they teach us? Moral lessons? No. They…

— Carlos Ruiz Zafon

When I was a kid, the book that I liked the most was 'Aesop's Fables.' There was a version of it that my father…

— Mark Mothersbaugh

I can find my biography in every fable that I read.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

I was reading my son some fables; it made for good nighttime reading. These stories were very vivid and very strange and occasionally bizarrely…

— Patrick deWitt

I am also working on a couple of short stories for anthologies. This is new to me and Im enjoying it.

— Judith Guest

What stories are new? All types of all characters march through all fables.

— William Makepeace Thackeray

Fiction or fable allures to instruction.

— Benjamin Franklin

One writes fables in periods of oppression.

— Italo Calvino

I've always been into having stories told to me. I was a voracious reader, my father was also a teller of tales; and the…

— Damon Lindelof

Short stories can make for really good adaptations.

— Lynne Ramsay

A certain class of novels may with propriety be called fables.

— Richard Whately