Old stories Quote by Hilary Mantel

“Keep in mind that in the whole long tradition of storytelling, from Greek myths through Shakespeare through King Arthur and Robin Hood, this whole…

— Michael Montoure

“I was sitting in the Temple of Karnak on the Nile, as the sun was going down, and I was all alone, and the…

— Wilbur A. Smith

“Wolsey sits with his elbows on his desk, his fingers dabbing his closed lids. He takes a great breath, and begins to talk: he…

— Hilary Mantel

“This is the myth of the Dark Ages, the idea that history and progress pretty much stopped for a millennium after the fall of…

— Ehsan Masood

“Only to say that the myths survive when everything else has been forgotten. And that sometimes the myths, for all their slippery deceptions, tell…

— Tom Harper

“For I am inclined to believe that my beloved Arthur of the future is sitting at this very moment among his learned freinds, in…

— T.H. White

“I find that whatever is old corrupts, and the past turns to snakes. The reverence for the deeds of our ancestors is a treacherous…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“It is one thing to deceive a king, and quite another to hide from the cricket in the rushes and the little bird in…

— George R.R. Martin

“Stories take on a life of their own, don't they? They're creatures carried gently by word and voice, but never quite bound. Long after…

— Shae Ford

“We must tell stories the way God does, stories in which a sister must float her little brother on a river with nothing but…

— N.D. Wilson

“That sordid, slippery little Snake looked us in the eyes and dared us to sire a king. And tonight, that king will have his…

— Soman Chainani

“Cromwell, suppose you’d been away from England for seven years? If you’d been like a knight in a story, lying under an enchantment? You…

— Hilary Mantel