A book is simply the container of an idea-like a bottle; what is inside the book is what matters.
Angela CarterOut of the frying pan into the fire! What is marriage but prostitution to one man instead of many? No different!
Angela CarterFor most of human history, 'literature,' both fiction and poetry, has been narrated, not written — heard, not read. So fairy tales, folk tales, stories from the oral tradition, are all of them the most vital connection we have with the imaginations of the ordinary men and women whose labor created our world.
Angela Carter