The fact is that you are more comfortable with myth than…

It's a fact that it is much more comfortable to be in the position of the person who has been offended than to be…

— Barbara Walters

History is the myth, the true myth, of man's fall made manifest in time.

— Henry Miller

I was suckered in by the myth of the man [ William Burroughs] as much as by his work.

— Oliver Harris

I have often had the fancy that there is some one Myth for every man, which, if we but knew it, would make us…

— William Butler Yeats

As is so often the case with a legend, every incident has two possible interpretations, the plausible and the one that is molded to…

— Bryce Courtenay

“what was myth in one world might always be fact in some other.”

— C.S. Lewis

History is a myth that men agree to believe.

— Napoleon Bonaparte

I always take a story that's kind of out there, like an urban myth. I take some possibility that people imagine, that they are…

— Cecelia Ahern

Music is our myth of the inner life.

— Susanne Katherina Langer

I think of mythology as the homeland of the muses, the inspirers of art, the inspirers of poetry. To see life as a poem…

— Joseph Campbell

In each studio there is a human being dressed in the full regalia of his myth fearing to expore a vulnerable opening, spreading not…

— Anais Nin

“Believe reality is what you were taught was myth.”

— Nicholas A. McGirr

If it is written and read with serious attention, a novel, like a myth or any great work of art, can become an initiation…

— Karen Armstrong

Beware of self-indulgence. The romance surrounding the writing profession carries several myths: that one must suffer in order to be creative; that one must…

— David Brin

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

— Trudi Canavan