Did Quote by Steven Knight

“When western books are set in the present, critics seldom call them westerns: the national myth allows the West only a past.”

— Gerald W. Haslam

With Westerns you have the landscape is important, and it's empty, and only you populate it. When you populate it, you can tell any…

— Lawrence Kasdan

As a child, my idea of the West was that it was a miasma of poverty and misery, like that of the homeless 'Little…

— Jung Chang

That the whole world is not the West and that there are other ways of doing things, whether it's eating, seeing or valuing life.

— Paterson Joseph

There was also the myth of the western films. But my films are borrowed not from the story of the West in America but…

— Sergio Leone

He left the name at which the world grew pale, To point a moral, or adorn a tale.

— Samuel Johnson

When Western civilization invaded the Near and Far East and what is now called the Third World it imposed its own ideas of a…

— Paul Feyerabend

I wanted to think about our creation myth; you know, what is the fundamental story that defines America. And it certainly is the West.

— Philipp Meyer

People in the East looked toward the West with longing. They would have liked to have the same comforts, the same goods, the same…

— Stefan Heym

The real story of the settlement of the West was work, not conquest

— Stewart Udall

Its a strange thing because the West is rooted in a very harsh reality of hard living and scratching out a life for yourself,…

— Colter Wall

While the government underwrote the West more than any other region, the myth claimed that hardworking Western cowboys and settlers wanted nothing from the…

— Heather Cox Richardson