About Angela Carter:
Angela Carter was an English novelist and journalist, known for her feminist, magical realism, and picaresque works. In 2008, The Times ranked Carter tenth in their list of "The 50 greatest British writers since 1945". In 2012, Nights at the Circus was selected as the best ever winner of the James Tait Black Memorial Prize.
A book is simply the container of an idea like a bottle; what is inside the book is what matters.
Angela CarterIt is, perhaps, better to be valued as an object of passion than never to be valued at all.
Angela CarterIf the Barbarians are destroyed, who will we then be able to blame for the bad things?
Angela CarterA fairy tale is the kind of story in which one king goes to another king to borrow a cup of sugar
Angela CarterLanguage is power, life and the instrument of culture, the instrument of domination and liberation.
Angela CarterCities have sexes: London is a man, Paris a woman, and New York a well-adjusted transsexual.
Angela Carter