Rachel True Quotes

I'm fascinated by almost any mythology that I can get my hands on.

I like mythology - anything historical.

All my stories are like the Greek and Roman myths, and the Egyptian myths, and the Old and New Testament.

I do love mythology.

I'm very at home working with mythology.

Mythology does not interest me. Nor does history. But the possible overlap between history and mythology excites me immensely.

I write on sacred stories, symbols and rituals of all cultures - European, American and Chinese - but my audiences, typically, like me to focus on India.

I used to like Norse mythology, Greek mythology, Egyptian mythology. All mythology!

Mythology is a vast body of knowledge that has not been tapped.

I was always interested in myths growing up. So, first I got into some Roman myths, then I was interested in Norse, then Celtic, then I started spreading to all the other mythologies.

Thus we hope to teach mythology not as a study, but as a relaxation from study; to give our work the charm of a story-book, yet by means of it to impart a knowledge of an important branch of education.

Actually, I love mythology. When I was a kid I was obsessed with myth and I wanted to be a mythologist when I grew up. Then I realized I really just like stories.

The world knows of a vast stock of epic material scattered up and down the nations; sometimes its artistic value is as extraordinary as its archaeological interest, but not always.

Oral storytelling goes back so long ago, and those stories that were told orally were always layered and changed with time.

Passed down from generation to generation, storytelling was an art in my family.

Without a knowledge of mythology much of the elegant literature of our own language cannot be understood and appreciated.

Myth is, after all, the neverending story.

Throughout history, story telling was at the very beginning of life.

Myths are stories that express meaning, morality or motivation. Whether they are true or not is irrelevant.

I'm such a geek, I know all about mythology and I don't know Marc Jacobs.

It's no secret that I've always had an interest in mythology. Whether it's Arthurian or ancient Greek or even Marvel universe. I've always connected with it on some level.

The deeper I go into mythology, the more I find. I originally did five 'Percy Jackson' books. I thought that would cover Greek mythology and I couldn't have been more wrong. It's ever-expanding.

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 it.

I think that we need mythology. We need a bedrock of story and legend in order to live our lives coherently.

We should burn all libraries and allow to remain only that which everyone knows by heart. A beautiful age of the legend would then begin.