Quotes of: Fables Keyword

Writers are notoriously unable to know about themselves. Faulkner thought 'The Fable' was his best novel. F. Scott Fitzgerald liked 'Tender Is the Night,' an experimental novel.

Joyce Carol Oates

The fabled musk deer searches the world over for the source of the scent which comes from itself.

Ramakrishna

I wanted to write a new fable and see how many rules you could break.

Jeanette Winterson

There is nothing in the world more shameful than establishing one's self on lies and fables.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

I think a lot of people, especially women, feel like to be whole, you need to find part of yourself in another person - probably because of the fables we're told as kids.

Zoe Lister-Jones

For me, art is make-believe. It's enchantment. It's a fable. I'm enjoying that and playing with it. Of course it's serious, and art is serious, but I'm not going to rarefy it.

Shea Hembrey

Whosoever counts these Lays as fable, may be assured that I am not of his mind.

Marie de France

We do not just fear our predators, we are transfixed by them. We are prone to weave stories and fables and chat endlessly about them.

Peter Benchley

I'm a big fan of a lot of graphic novels - 'Fables,' 'Y: The Last Man' and 'The Walking Dead,' which I like a lot more.

Cobie Smulders

Did universal charity prevail, earth would be a heaven, and hell a fable.

Charles Caleb Colton

How many things served us yesterday for articles of faith, which today are fables for us?

The Complete Essays

War is an episode, a crisis, a fever the purpose of which is to rid the body of fever. So the purpose of a war is to end the war.

A Fable

that the grace of fable stirs the mind"...and..."that the perusal of excellent books is, as it were, to interview with the noblest men of past ages

Rene Descartes

Nobody sees the obvious, nobody observes the ordinary. There are more miracles in a square yard of earth than in all the fables of the Church.

Robert Anton Wilson

Gay writers now have both a sense of history and the fables that allows them to dwell in the realms of the ridiculous and at the same time talk seriously about things.

Tony Kushner

How many things we held yesterday as articles of faith which today we tell as fables.

Michel de Montaigne

Some writers are so enthralled by ideas (one thinks of Doris Lessing) that their characters become debaters, and their fables approach allegory.

Edmund White

I had rather believe all the Fables in the Legend, and the Talmud, and the Alcoran, than that this universal frame is without a Mind.

Francis Bacon

Will they remember us, Aravan? Will Mankind remember us at all?" ... Mayhap, Gwylly, mayhap. Mayhap in their legends and their fables. Mayhap in naught but their dreams.

Dennis L. McKiernan

Is that not the Promethean fable, that the fire stolen from the gods will light men their way even while it burns their hands?

Zia Haider Rahman

Hope isn't destiny. Left passive its nothing more than disappointment deferred

Fables, Vol. 16: Super Team