John Berger Quotes

George Clinton is the best storyteller in the world.

There was a time when fire and story would fall asleep in unison. It was dream time.

Myth is, after all, the neverending story.

In the Western tradition, the first writers were teachers and historians, vastly traveled, who spiced their reports with fantasies. They were also poets who sang and entertained prince and pauper.

I don't want to be remembered as a writer. I would rather be remembered as a storyteller.

Combine two words, Myth and History. What do you get? Mystery.

I do love mythology.

Horrors, I believe, should be original - the use of common myths and legends being a weakening influence.

Fairy tales and folk tales are part of the DNA of all stories and great fun to write.

I need to be believe that dragons are real. I want them be a real thing.

I'd go into the woods to look for the witches, the mythical beings.

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

Underground, the stars are legend.

History has its truth; and so has legend hers.

Like legend and myth, magic fades when it is unused.

Legends don't have to make sense. They just have to be beautiful. Or at least interesting.

Even when the facts are available, most people seem to prefer the legend, and refuse to believe the truth when it in any way dislodges the myth.

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

Old stories often turn out to be true.

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

It is the chief value of legend to mix up the centuries while preserving the sentiment.

Myths are so intimately bound to culture, time, and place that unless the symbols, the metaphors, are kept alive by constant recreation through the arts, the life just slips away from them.

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

Maidens who stay maidens turn into saints. Old women become sorceresses. Tough jobs, both of these.

And, before science had caught up with the legend, the legend had swallowed science and everything.