Books Quote by Kenzaburo Oe

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

— Eric Kripke

For myth is at the beginning of literature, and also at its end.

— Jorge Luis Borges

Wherever the poetry of myth is interpreted as biography, history, or science, it is killed.

— Joseph Campbell

Myth is very powerful and fiction is very powerful.

— Jeff Feuerzeig

“...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

“the deepest function of myth, which is to lend narrative order to apparently disconnected bits of information,”

— Christopher Ryan

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

Literature is conscious mythology: as society develops, its mythical stories become structural principles of story-telling, its mythical concepts, sun-gods and the like, become habits…

— Northrop Frye

It's the historian's job not to ridicule the myths, but to show the difference between myth and reality.

— Norman Davies

I think people create MYTH so that they can hide originality of the society.

— Punkinhead Abhishek

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

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