Books Quote by Northrop Frye

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

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

“...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

No work of literature is the product of only one or two conscious ideas. A story is mysteriously dense of meaning.

— Carol Bly

Literature is about telling stories.

— Amos Oz

“Narrative, in short. is more than literature, it is the way we understand our lives. If literature merely supplied entertainment, then it wouldn't be…

— Robert N. Bellah

Literature is the province of imagination, and stories, in whatever guise, are meditations on life.

— Paula Fox

Literature is a beautiful way of keeping the imagination alive, of visiting worlds you would never have time to in your day-to-day life. It…

— Abraham Verghese

Literary imagination is an aesthetic object offered by a writer to a lover of books.

— Gaston Bachelard

“We have seen that a myth could never approached in a purely profane setting. It was only comprehensible in a liturgical context that set…

— Karen Armstrong

When I write what publishers call 'fantasy' I am writing in what I think is the most important tradition of fiction: starting with Homer…

— Janet Morris

Literature presents you with alternate mappings of the human experience. You see that the experiences of other people and other cultures are as rich,…

— Chaim Potok