Books Quote by Haruki Murakami

If it is written and read with serious attention, a novel, like a myth or any great work of art, can become an initiation…

— Karen Armstrong

Both dreams and myths are important communications from ourselves to ourselves. If we do not understand the language in which they are written, we…

— Erich Fromm

The myth is the public domain and the dream is the private myth. If your private myth, your dream, happens to coincide with that…

— Joseph Campbell

“...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

Both dreams and myths are important communications from ourselves to ourselves.

— Erich Fromm

It has been said that the myth is a public dream, dreams are private myths. Unfortunately we give our mythic side scant attention these…

— Mary Zimmerman

I am well-nigh resolv'd to write no more tales but merely to dream when I have a mind to, not stopping to do anything…

— H. P. Lovecraft

“People didn't realize it, but they needed myths to survive, just as much now as when their forebears were alive. Perhaps more. Mythology embodied…

— Charles de Lint

writers are makers, not just transmitters, of myths. Literature offers not only myths but counter-myths, just as life offers counter-experiences - experiences that confound…

— Susan Sontag

Writing: I certainly do rewrite my central myth in every book, and would never read or trust any writer who did not also do…

— Northrop Frye

Myths are the prototype for all stories. When we write a story on our own it can't help but link up with all sorts…

— Haruki Murakami

Myths are public dreams; dreams are private myths. By finding your own dream and following it through, it will lead you to the myth-world…

— Joseph Campbell