What if all the myths were true...

“The belief that myths are somehow less true than the symbolic dream we call 'reality' may be the greatest myth of all.”

— Eric Micha'el Leventhal

It seems far simpler to go ahead and say that the epic is a fantastic myth, that happens to be true of the material…

— Ursula Goodenough

“My people understood that time is an ocean, not a river. It doesn't flow away and pour itself out, done and gone. It simply…

— Laini Taylor

“Myths are lies; but I believe in the power of myths the way I believe in rocks.”

— S.M. Stirling

“Myths are reality, born out of space.”

— VD

Myths are, in fact...neither primitive nor untrue. They are, rather, a kind of poetry that helps us make sense of the world and our…

— Stephen H. Furrer

Myths have a certain staying power because, really, they are aspirational - not always who we are, but always who we want to be.…

— Richard Cohen

It's not about superheroes. This is the method of universal storytelling that all people have... To me, they're the same as the Greek myths…

— Patty Jenkins

“For hero-worship often defeats its own ends; the boy who "cannot tell a lie," the boy who kept his finger in the hole in…

— Leon Ma. Guerrero

We overhype everything. We create monumental myths. There are people who still believe that Brandi Chastain and the U.S. women's World Cup team pulled…

— Jason Whitlock

All my stories are like the Greek and Roman myths, and the Egyptian myths, and the Old and New Testament.

— Ray Bradbury

Other people's beliefs may be myths, but not mine.

— Mason Cooley

When we lose our myths we lose our place in the universe.

— Madeleine L'Engle

I have always been fascinated by the supernatural elements in stories, whether fairy tales, myths, film or literature.

— Trudi Canavan

“Many people do simply awful things out of sincere religious belief, not using religion as a cover the way that Saddam Hussein may have…

— Steven Weinberg