Phyllis McGinley Quotes

At the heart of every legend there is a grain of truth.

Fiction is Truth's elder sister. Obviously. No one in the world knew what truth was till some one had told a story.

What is truer than truth? Answer: the story.

Every legend, moreover, contains its residuum of truth, and the root function of language is to control the universe by describing it.

People love a good story, even if it's a story that has very little truth to it.

He says every story has at least some truth in it, even if most are made up.

The job of a storyteller is to speak the truth. But what we feel most deeply can’t be spoken in words alone. At this level, only images connect. And here, story becomes symbol; symbol is myth. And myth is truth.

From earliest times, humans - explorers and thinkers - have wanted to figure out the shape of their world. Forever, the way we've done that is through storytelling. It is difficult to let the truth get in the way of a good story.

To begin with, I want to tell a good story, a story that people will listen to and that they'll think this is true, even if it is a story that might be defined as - as myth or legend or even fanciful.

The truth is always less interesting than the fiction.

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.

Some stories are true that never happened.

The vampire was real. It was only that his true story had never been told.

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

There is no story that is not true.

I love stories, I love myths, I love fairytales, I love Kafka.

As long as there's one person to believe it, there's no story that can't be true.

Just so you know, when they say "once upon a time"....they're lying. It's not once upon a time. Its not even twice upon a time. It's hundreds of times, over and over, every time someone opens up the pages of this dusty old book.

All stories are true.

Myth is the hidden part of every story, the buried part, the region that is still unexplored because there are as yet no words to enable us to get there. Myth is nourished by silence as well as by words.

Stories," he'd said, his voice low and almost husky, "we are made up of stories. And even the one's that seem the most like lies can be our deepest hidden truths.

fiction is the great lie that tells the truth

A myth is a lie that conveys a truth.

Some of these things are true and some of them lies. But they are all good stories.

STORY, n. A narrative, commonly untrue.