The Djinn in the Nightingale's Eye on Katha Sarit Sagara: “It has to be admitted, said Orhan, that misogyny is a driving force of premodern story collections – perhaps especially of the frame stories-from Katha Sarit Sagara, The Ocean of Story, to the Thousand and One Nights, Alf Layla wa-Layla.”
The Satanic Verses on The Ocean of the Streams of Story: “thanks to a string of surprise box-office hits based on old fables drawn from the Katha-Sarit-Sagar compendium -- the 'Ocean of the Streams of Story', longer than the Arabian Nights and equally as fantasticated”