There's something very truthful about American brutality…

There's a reason that all societies and cultures and small bands of humans engage in myth-making. Fundamentally, it is to help us understand ourselves.

— Philipp Meyer

My thesis is that what we call 'science' is differentiated from the older myths not by being something distinct from a myth, but by…

— Karl Popper

This country has such little sense of itself sometimes, I'm astonished. America is one of the biggest myth-making countries, whether we're talking about how…

— Junot Diaz

“You call a tree a tree, he said, and you think nothing more of the word. But it was not a 'tree' until someone…

— J.R.R. Tolkien

It's worth being suspicious of writers - or anyone! - who does that myth-making thing. There's always a tendency to retrospectively impose structures on…

— Guy Gavriel Kay

We have come from God, and inevitably the myths woven by us, though they contain error, will also reflect a splintered fragment of the…

— Anonymous

“But, said Lewis, myths are lies, even though lies breathed through silver. No, said Tolkien, they are not. ...just as speech is invention about…

— Humphrey Carpenter

The myth-making machine is the mimetic contagion that disappears behind the myth it generates.

— Rene Girard

I'm entranced by the idea of reading the culture back to itself, because I'm conscious that we as people and also as a culture…

— Daphne Gottlieb

My child, you have a flawed grasp of the nature of myth-making. I am a poet and storyteller, a creator of ballads and sagas.…

— Frances Hardinge

When you're talking about rock n' roll, myth-making is what it's all about.

— Nick Cave

Ideology is the sterner face of myth and we're a myth-making people.

— Diana Trilling

“That era provided a profusion of wonderful actors and actresses to admire—and not always the ones remembered by posterity. Take Joel McCrea, for instance,…

— Robert Wagner

In a Western, you don't over-explain.

— Jeffrey Dean Morgan

Don't ever for a minute make the mistake of looking down your nose at westerns. They're art - the good ones, I mean. They…

— John Wayne