One writes fables in periods of oppression.
Italo Calvino
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All cartoon characters and fables must be exaggeration, caricatures. It is the very nature of fantasy and fable.
Walt Disney
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Some writers are so enthralled by ideas (one thinks of Doris Lessing) that their characters become debaters, and their fables approach allegory.
Edmund White
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There is nothing in the world more shameful than establishing one's self on lies and fables.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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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
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Natural history is not about producing fables.
David Attenborough
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The wisdom of the wise and the experience of the ages is preserved into perpetuity by a nation's proverbs, fables, folk sayings and quotations.
William Feather
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I directed a piece of theater in Italy. We took nine fables from the town and we created a play.
Vincent Schiavelli
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