Storytelling Quote by George Sheehan

“In those timeless years between infancy and, say, seven what is has always been: in that way children inhabit the realm of myth.”

— Margaret Atwood

“The images of myth must be the daemonic guardians, omnipresent and unnoticed, which protect the growth of the young mind, and guide man's interpretation…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Clearly, mythology is no toy for children. Nor is it a matter of archaic, merely scholarly concern, of no moment to modern men of…

— Joseph Campbell

“Myth is the foundation of life; it is the timeless pattern, the religious formula to which life shapes itself. Whereas in the life of…

— Clarissa Johal

“A child, left to play alone, says of quite an easy thing, 'Now I am going to to do something very difficult'. Soon, out…

— Cyril Connolly

“Every culture that has lost myth has lost, by the same token, its natural healthy creativity. Only a horizon ringed about with myths can…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

I'm not a big fan of kids' movies that have this knowing snarkiness to them or this post-modern take on storytelling. I think that…

— John C. Reilly

We can keep from a child all knowledge of earlier myths, but we cannot take from him the need for mythology.

— Carl Jung

“Childhood was our common mythology.”

— Bia Lowe

A myth is an image in terms of which we try to make sense of the world.

— Alan Watts

Let children have tales of the imagination, scenes laid in other lands and other times; heroic adventures, hairbreadth escapes, delicious fairy tales, even where…

— Charlotte Mason

“I know that every interpretation of a myth impoverishes and suffocates it; with myths, it’s better not to rush things, better to let them…

— Italo Calvino