African american Quote by Jesmyn Ward

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 stories that express meaning, morality or motivation. Whether they are true or not is irrelevant.

— Michael Shermer

Myths are part of our DNA. We're a civilisation with a continuous culture. The effort to modernize it keeps it alive. Readers connect with…

— Amish Tripathi

The interface of history and myth is where my stories take place anyway, and there's always a way I'm trying to tap mythologies with…

— Steve Stern

In terms of the mechanics of story, myth is an intriguing one because we didn't make myth up; myth is an imprinture of the…

— Baz Luhrmann

A myth is a way of making sense in a senseless world. Myths are narrative patterns that give significance to our existence.

— Rollo May

We still like to make up stories, just as our ancestors did, which use personification to explain the great forces of our existence. Such…

— John Frederick Nims

All the great legends are Templates for human behavior. I would define a myth as a story that has survived.

— John Boorman

“Reading myth as crystallizing historical fact was a common approach in the 19th and early 20th centuries. But it is an approach to myth…

— Helen Morales

“myth” in this strict sense is a story that purports to be in some sense “historical” and that encapsulates and reinforces the strongly held…

— N.T. Wright

“[Northrop] Frye was concerned mostly with literary criticism, and myths interested him as structural elements in works of literature. He used the word myth…

— Margaret Atwood

“For most of human history, myths have survived through changing times because they did not demand to be seen as a literal retelling of…

— Jonah Sachs