Body Quote by George Steiner

I wanted to connect a modern story with a myth that I had read.

— Wally Lamb

“At critical moments in the life of individuals and of societies, it is not necessarily the facts that are needed as much as a…

— Michael Meade

“Historical mythmaking is made possible only by forgetting.”

— Nancy Isenberg

When you step further into the story you came to live, not only does the mythic territory open, but the deep self moves and…

— Michael Meade

Mythologies become exhausting burdens, from a writer's perspective.

— Eric Kripke

“The best historical stories capture the modern imagination because they are, in many senses, still current - part of a continuum.”

— Sara Sheridan

“...a novel, like a myth or any great work of art, can become an initiation that helps us to make a painful rite of…

— Karen Armstrong

The myth that everyone once read great literature is just a myth.

— Margaret Atwood

“a tale of myth mystery, and a past long forgotten.”

— Lisa M. Green

“It is the mythic experience, the mythic imagination that opens, reveals depth and mystery, which places the human in the context of the nonhuman,…

— Tom Cheetham

“People won't see Imagination in something that doesn't relate to their experience because of their own mental limitations. I want people to escape the…

— Lionel Suggs

Myth is very powerful and fiction is very powerful.

— Jeff Feuerzeig