Convinced Quote by Rainer Werner Fassbinder

So certainly, if we can tell evil stories to make people sick, we can also tell good myths that make them well.

— Rainer Werner Fassbinder

A people are as healthy and confident as the stories they tell themselves. Sick storytellers can make nations sick. Without stories we would go…

— Ben Okri

The more real things get, the more like myths they become.

— Rainer Werner Fassbinder

Myths, as compared with folk tales, are usually in a special category of seriousness: they are believed to have "really happened,"or to have some…

— Northrop Frye

The reason for evil in the world is that people are not able to tell their stories.

— Anonymous

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

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

— Michael Shermer

Real myths are often strange and startlingly unfamiliar, and don't always give up their meanings easily; you have to tease them out, and for…

— Elizabeth Hand

We need myths to get by. We need story; otherwise the tremendous randomness of experience overwhelms us. Story is what penetrates.

— Robert Coover

Myths are clues to the spiritual potentialities of the human life.

— Joseph Campbell

Myths which are believed in tend to become true.

— George Orwell

Myths are wonderful - they really tell the stories that connect all of us and teach us so much.

— Jeff Bridges