Been Quote by Terri Windling

“I think people should take mythology much more seriously, because it tells us an awful lot about the history of the human race. We…

— Jan Siegel

Myth is supposed to bring us together, but fantasy alienates us.

— Dustin Hoffman

The old fairy tales are very, very violent, and these days I think we could do with a little less of it.

— Julie Andrews

There's a reason that all societies and cultures and small bands of humans engage in myth-making. Fundamentally, it is to help us understand ourselves.

— Philipp Meyer

I understood that the stories we believe have power over us. They work into our bodies and minds and change us from inside out.…

— Danielle Trussoni

I think people should read fairy tales, because we're hungry for a mythology that will speak to our fears.

— Sandra Cisneros

The fact that fairy tales remain a literary underdog-undervalued and undermined-even as they shape so many popular stories, redoubles my certainty that it is…

— Kate Bernheimer

I wanted the chance to look again at very famous stories and see what made them work well, whether there were any ways in…

— Philip Pullman

We cling to our fairy tales until the price for believing in them becomes too high.

— Ransom Riggs

Myths are part of our DNA. We're a civilisation with a continuous culture. The effort to modernize it keeps it alive. Readers connect with…

— Amish Tripathi

To me, a fairy tale seems to have become reality.

— Nelly Sachs

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

— Robert Coover