Healthy Quote by Gregory Maguire

A false tale often betrays itself.

— Aesop

Myth is neither a lie nor a confession: it is an inflexion.

— Roland Barthes

Fairly tales are myths, and myths are only myths because there's a grain of truth in them.

— Silas Weir Mitchell

I learned that myth doesn’t mean a lie; it means a traditional story that tells you something about people and their worldview and what…

— John Green

“The old superstition about fiction being 'wicked' has doubtless died out in England; but the spirit of it lingers in a certain oblique regard…

— Henry James

I cannot tell how the truth may be; I say the tale as it was said to me.

— Walter Scott

From a tale one expects a bit of wildness, of exaggeration and dramatic effect. The tale has no inherent concern with decorum, balance or…

— Peter Straub

There can't be a pure myth, especially when the myth has been handed down in the oral tradition. As the stories are told, they…

— Maxine Hong Kingston

It is the tale, not he who tells it.

— Stephen King

As David Roderick says about writing, "It's not the tale that pleases, it's the telling," and I could not agree more.

— Jack Driscoll

All fables, indeed, have their morals; but the innocent enjoy the story.

— Henry David Thoreau

Behind every myth lies a truth; beyond every legend is reality, as radiant (sometimes as chilling) as the story itself.

— Phyllis McGinley