Tim Schafer Quotes

All myths that are something more than fancies gain rather than lose in value with time, by reason of the accretions of human experience.

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

Humankind has been telling stories forever and will be telling stories forever.

Stories always seem to get better with age.

In terms of the mechanics of story, myth is an intriguing one because we didn't make myth up; myth is an imprinture of the human condition.

Folktales are real.

No place is a place until things that have happened in it are remembered in history, ballads, yarns, legends, or monuments. Fictions serve as well as facts.

You're never going to kill storytelling, because it's built into the human plan. We come with it.

To tell the truth, fairytales have never gone out of style. They have been told and retold for thousands of years, finding new shapes and structures with each new generation of tellers.

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

There is something in human beings that loves stories.

If you look at any ancient civilization, they've all used fantasy stories to train the young.

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.

Before we were born, a whole society of storytellers was already here. The storytellers who were here before us taught us how to be human.

Folk tales and myths, they've lasted for a reason. We tell them over and over because we keep finding truths in them, and we keep finding life in them.

I get a lot of inspiration from research in mythology and folklore. I find that, you know, stories people told each other thousands of years ago are still relevant now.

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

I find all folklore challenging, and I never cease to be grateful that I became a professional folklorist.

We are the storytelling animal.

Storytelling is the oldest form of entertainment there is. From campfires and pictograms - the Lascaux cave paintings may be as much as twenty thousand years old - to tribal songs and epic ballads passed down from generation to generation, it is one of the most fundamental ways humans have of making sense of the world.

The bearers of fables are very welcome.

Every human society possesses a mythology which is inherited, transmitted and diversified by literature.

Fairy tales and myths are forms of cultural storage for the natural history of life.

The greatest art in the world is the art of storytelling.

I think story-telling is innate in human beings, it's something that we've done since we scrawled across cave walls.