Becoming Quote by Arthur C. Clarke

Real myths are often strange and startlingly unfamiliar, and don't always give up their meanings easily; you have to tease them out, and for…

— Elizabeth Hand

The more real things get, the more like myths they become.

— Rainer Werner Fassbinder

Myths are part of our DNA. We're a civilisation with a continuous culture. The effort to modernize it keeps it alive. Readers connect with…

— Amish Tripathi

We need myths to get by. We need story; otherwise the tremendous randomness of experience overwhelms us. Story is what penetrates.

— Robert Coover

“For most of human history, myths have survived through changing times because they did not demand to be seen as a literal retelling of…

— Jonah Sachs

Myths which are believed in tend to become true.

— George Orwell

In terms of the mechanics of story, myth is an intriguing one because we didn't make myth up; myth is an imprinture of the…

— Baz Luhrmann

Myths often do a lot of theoretical good, while they are still new.

— Gilbert Ryle

Myths, by their definition, involve transformations, struggles through various worlds or layers of reality and of obscuration.

— Anne Waldman

Myths, whether in written or visual form, serve a vital role of asking unanswerable questions and providing unquestionable answers. Most of us, most of…

— Michael Shermer

Myths are experienced in ordinary life, as everyday epiphanies.

— Phil Cousineau

The claim that myth is always a narrative spin-off of ritual; the claim that myth is the projection of human anxieties onto a cosmological…

— Robert Bringhurst