Acclaim Quote by James Ellroy

A time will come when people will think I am a myth, or rather something the newspapers have made up.

— Paul Gauguin

The test of a true myth is that each time you return to it, new insights and interpretations arise.

— Starhawk

(I am) dealing not with the particular anecdote, but rather with the Spirit of Myth, which is generic to all myths at all times.

— Mark Rothko

“The faculty for myth is innate in the human race. It seizes with avidity upon any incidents, surprising or mysterious, in the career of…

— W. Somerset Maugham

A myth is a lie that conceals or reveals a truth. But if it reveals even a strand of history or truth, that's what…

— Ashwin Sanghi

Am I a myth? Am I a legend? Or am I a phenomenon?

— Scott Steiner

I learned that I never really know the true story of my guests' lives, that I have to content myself with knowing that when…

— Terry Gross

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

— Eric Kripke

You can't create a myth on your own. People do it for you.

— Ville Valo

“A myth is an unverifiable and typically fantastic story that is nonethless felt to be true and that deal with a theme of some…

— John Bierhorst

Myth is a powerful medium because it talks to the emotions and not the head. It moves us into an area of mystery.

— Sam Shepard

“The General, speaking one felt with authority, always insisted that, if you bring off adequate preservation of your personal myth, nothing much else in…

— Anthony Powell