John Mason Brown Quotes

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

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

Legends die hard. They survive as truth rarely does.

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.

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

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.

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

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

All legends have a base in fact.

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

History has its truth; and so has legend hers.

Over the millennia the seed of stories planted in the fertile soil of bits and scraps of facts was watered by wishes and began to take root and grow. Eventually, a bountiful fruit of rumors burst forth, to be spread on the wind of whispers that said we hid a fabled hoard of gold. Nothing could convince the believers that it was not true. The truth does not glitter for these people like gold does.

I was told once by some country people that a magician should never tell his dreams because the telling will make them come true. But I say that is great nonsense.

What people believe prevails over the truth.

If you hear an old parable and you don't believe it, it's mythology. If you hear an old parable and you believe it, it's religion.

If ignorance were enough to make things not exist, the world would be more like a lot of people think it is. But it's not. And it's not.

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

I don't really believe in stories, only in the people who tell them.

Myth is, after all, the neverending story.

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

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

It is difficult to separate, at times, the myth from the truth.

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

I do love mythology.

The art of storytelling is reaching its end because the epic side of truth, wisdom, is dying out.