Mythology Quote by Walter Kirn

The American West is just arriving at the threshold of its greatness and growth. Where the West of yesterday is glamorized in our fiction,…

— Lyndon B. Johnson

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

The reason I wouldn't dare to write a Western is simply because that seems to be so much a part of American culture. Maybe…

— Kazuo Ishiguro

“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

I haven't read hardly any Westerns, to tell you the truth.

— Patrick deWitt

It seems like the Western genre has crept out of its casings during the last few years, and expanded to include books and movies…

— Elizabeth Crook

The Old West is not a certain place in a certain time, it's a state of mind. It's whatever you want it to be.

— Tom Mix

I would say that the West is very young, it's very corrupt. We're not very wise. And I think we're hopeful that there is…

— Richard Gere

No, I don't think about the myth of the West. It's not the kind of thinking I do. That's more suited to people who…

— Tommy Lee Jones

The distinction between East and West is that the Western novel is very organized, it's very logical, there's a logical progression, there's a chronological…

— Donald Richie

I had no plan to write a western novel, and when I realized it was happening, I was pretty surprised by it. But you…

— Patrick deWitt

The East was no longer a threat to the western world, and when there's nothing to fear we turn our backs, we look elsewhere.…

— Dumitru Tepeneag