Gloria Naylor Quotes

We live in our myths, we only endure reality.

It's a good country for myths. Things seem to take root here.

Legends die hard. They survive as truth rarely does.

The truth is always less interesting than the fiction.

Some stories are true that never happened.

The human world is made of stories, not people.

He who has no sympathy with myths has no sympathy with men.

Man is fed with fables through life, and leaves it in the belief he knows something of what has been passing, when in truth he knows nothing but what has passed under his own eyes.

People become the stories they hear and the stories they tell.

Legends have always played a powerful role in the making of history. ... Without ever relating facts reliably, yet always expressing their true significance, they offered a truth beyond realities, a remembrance beyond memories.

The difference between a Miracle and a Fact is exactly the difference between a mermaid and a seal.

Sometimes reality is too complex for oral communication. But legend embodies it in a form which enables it to spread all over the world.

There are some people who believe that these are not real stories with real people, but they actually are.

We are made of the stories we have heard and read all through our lives.

Sometimes legends make reality, and become more useful than the facts.

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

A myth is far truer than a history, for a history only gives a story of the shadows, whereas a myth gives a story of the substances that cast the shadows.

Imagination and fiction make up more than three quarters of our real life.

the greatest American superstition was belief in facts.

People don't like reality, they like crazy stories.

Myths are the prototype for all stories. When we write a story on our own it can't help but link up with all sorts of myths. Myths are like a reservoir containing every story there is.

We are surrounded by story.

Most Americans honestly believe America is the most powerful nation on earth, but actualy the most powerful nation is imagi-nation.

Myths are fun, as long as you don't confuse them with the truth.

Myth is much more important and true than history. History is just journalism and you know how reliable that is.