All the superhero stuff is Greek myths and Greek gods, wearing tights and capes. That's what they are. That's what I gravitate… — Louis Leterrier Copy Share Image
I've long said that comic books are the modern equivalent of our Greek myths. — David S. Goyer Copy Share Image
I think of evolution as a myth, like the Norse myths, the Greek myths - anybody's myths. But it was created for… — Tom Wolfe Copy Share Image
Let the credulous and the vulgar continue to believe that all mental woes can be cured by a daily application of old… — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
“...he would miss half their lives, locked alone in the dark while the children splashed in the rain, earned the Greek myths,… — Ramona Ausubel Copy Share Image
I'm extremely into Greek Mythology and know almost everything about the classic Greek myths. — Jinkx Monsoon Copy Share Image
For a whole year in elementary school, when the class marched down to the school library every week, I would refuse to… — Robin Sloan Copy Share Image
We tend to think of divorced or complicated families as a modern invention, and that is not at all true. You only… — Rick Riordan Copy Share Image
Cacus.” I’d had years of practice looking dumb when people threw out Greek names I didn’t know. It’s a skill of mine.… — Rick Riordan Copy Share Image
When I was a kid, I took 'The Brady Bunch' and 'The Partridge Family' very seriously. It was a world to me… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
Greek myths, early Roman history, is configured around violence against women. And I think we need to get in there, get our… — Mary Beard Copy Share Image
Not all of E. Nesbit's children's books are fantasies, but even the most realistic somehow seem magical. In her holiday world, nobody… — Michael Dirda Copy Share Image
When I was a kid, my grandparents were Greek immigrants on my father's side. My grandfather used to read me Greek myths,… — Laeta Kalogridis Copy Share Image
“Keep in mind that in the whole long tradition of storytelling, from Greek myths through Shakespeare through King Arthur and Robin Hood,… — Michael Montoure Copy Share Image
Had there been no Renaissance and no Italian influence to bring in the stories of other lands English history would, it may… — William Butler Yeats Copy Share Image
Characters work really well when they're reflective of the times that they're operating in. To keep these characters static - like Superman… — Brian Azzarello Copy Share Image
“I read Greek myths. I read about far off places, Venice and Paris. I read about men who searched for things they… — Alice Hoffman Copy Share Image
Greek myths are heroic, noble and tragic; but the American Dream is heroic, comical, and uplifting. Americans are a people in whom… — John C. Wright Copy Share Image
THAT Perseus always won. That's why my momhad named me after him, even if he was son of Zeus ann I was… — Rick Riordan Copy Share Image
It's not about superheroes. This is the method of universal storytelling that all people have... To me, they're the same as the… — Patty Jenkins Copy Share Image
“Her uneasy gaze skittered along the length of his arms, which were exposed by his rolled-up shirtsleeves... and stopped at the astonishing… — Lisa Kleypas Copy Share Image
“My aunt and my mother read to me when I was three from all the old Grimm fairy tales, Andersen fairy tales,… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
“Silverstein, one of those leading the charge toward more far-ranging flights than Mercury, had been looking for a suitable name for a… — Courtney G. Brooks, James M. Grimwood, Loyd S. Swenson Copy Share Image
“Poppy used to share the room with her older sister, and piles of he sister's outgrown clothes still remained spread out in… — Holly Black Copy Share Image
“You think I hate men. I guess I do, although some of my best friends...I don't like this position. I mistrust generalized… — Marilyn French Copy Share Image
“Kerényi was as aware as anybody today of the territorial limits of Greek myths and of the non-importability of Hermes. He writes:… — Karl Kerényi Copy Share Image
“I should have learned my lesson from Greek myths, really. It so doesn't pay to fall in love with a god. It’s… — Marian Tee Copy Share Image
“You read any Greek myths, puppy? The one about the gorgon Medusa, particularly? I used to wonder what could be so terrible… — Mike Carey & Peter Gross Copy Share Image
