Writer Quotes and aphorisms about tradition Gilbert K. Chesterton Henry James Camilla Lackberg F. Sionil Jose Kate Bernheimer ,, In the old fairy tales, often a 'moral' was tacked on at the end of the story - say, if a book was ... Nathan Englander D. H. Lawrence Robert Louis Stevenson Ann Powers ,, Personally, I've realized that the tradition I thought of as too safe, too pretty, and too conventi... Henning Mankell