Quote by Richard Maxwell Brown

I look at the story, I look at the idea and just try to think of it in terms of that whole body of…

— John Boorman

We have a lot of heroes. We have Asian heroes, we have Asian American heroes, men, women, of all ages, and not all of…

— Simu Liu

The workman in the true sense of the word - the artist in guns - is either extinct, or hidden in an obscure corner.…

— Richard Jefferies

There was a real conflation of hero and victim in the wake of 9/11, in our perverse desire to create a triumphant myth out…

— Jess Walter

Military mythology has to pretend that real men are in the majority; cowards can never be allowed to feel that they might be the…

— Germaine Greer

“The definition of a hero changes depending on the needs of the person with the dictionary. And of late I’ve become more aware how…

— Lindsay Buroker

“A novel requires a hero, and here there's a deliberate collection of all the traits for an anti-hero”

— Dostoyevsky, Fyodor

“I hear civilians saying we’re all heroes, heard someone… was it Arthur Godfrey on Armed Forces Radio? I can’t recall, but it’s nonsense anyway.…

— Michael Grant

“Not all guns have to be fired. A pistol is just a tool and where I am living is not a story book world.…

— Haruki Murakami

“In the world of so-called villains, what we need is not another hero. What we need is to stop the influx of people who…

— Vironika Tugaleva

We spend all this energy keeping our lives normal and safe and predictable, and the result is that our approved cultural safety valve is…

— Peter Coyote

“Myths have always been archetypal realities, that through history or legend, remind the human being of his origin, his destiny, and the meaning of…

— Javier Cazañ