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The interface of history and myth is where my stories take place anyway, and there's always a way I'm trying to tap mythologies with…

— Steve Stern

Myth is much more important and true than history. History is just journalism and you know how reliable that is.

— Joseph Campbell

“Myth took the place of objectively conceived history. Myth, Michel Tournier has said, is “history everyone already knows.”2 As such, history becomes nothing but…

— Modris Eksteins

“History could be as arbitrary as poetry, he told himself: what is history, other than a matter of choice, the picking and choosing of…

— Robert Silverberg

“Reading myth as crystallizing historical fact was a common approach in the 19th and early 20th centuries. But it is an approach to myth…

— Helen Morales

I've always preferred mythology to history. History is truth that becomes an illusion. Mythology is an illusion that becomes reality.

— Jean Cocteau

Myth is sometimes more important than history.

— Adrian Dunbar

It is not without fear and trembling that a historian of religion approaches the problem of myth. This is not only because of that…

— Mircea Eliade

“Mythology can be defined as the sacred history of humankind. This is different from what we call "history." Mythical stories, when you trace them…

— Gerald Hausman

“myth” in this strict sense is a story that purports to be in some sense “historical” and that encapsulates and reinforces the strongly held…

— N.T. Wright

To know the truth of history is to realize its ultimate myth and its inevitable ambiguity.

— Roy Basler

History often resembles myth, because they are both ultimately of the same stuff.

— Anonymous