Janette Rallison Quotes

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

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

If you were a god, how would you like being called a myth, an old story to explain lightning? What if I told you, Perseus Jackson, that someday people would call you a myth, just created to explain how little boys can get over losing their mothers?

A myth is a lie that conveys a truth.

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

A wonder tale can be truer than true," I said. I had learned (...) that the deepest kind of truth can be found in the strangest and wildest of stories. One may not meet a fire-breathing dragon on the way to the well. One may not encounter an army of toothed snakes in the woodshed. That does not make the wisdom in those tales any less real.

The idea that myth is the opposite of knowledge, or the opposite of truth, is simply to disallow it. It is like saying poetry is the opposite of truth.

A myth is a lie that conceals or reveals a truth. But if it reveals even a strand of history or truth, that's what gets my adrenaline going.

Legends die hard. They survive as truth rarely does.

Things need not have happened to be true. Tales and adventures are the shadow truths that will endure when mere facts are dust and ashes and forgotten.

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.

I tell stories. That's what I do. I've always told stories.

It's no sin to tell a good story.

I have a better internal and intuitive understanding of folklore and myth than science and technology, so in that way fantasy is easier.

The truth is always less interesting than the fiction.

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

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.

Jack’s life had more to do with myth, legend, saga, and story than with political theory or political science.

When I was a kid, my favorite superhero was Robin Hood.

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

All legends have a base in fact.

If swans weren't real myths'd make up.

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.