Richard Matheson Quotes

Behind every myth lies a truth; beyond every legend is reality, as radiant (sometimes as chilling) as the story itself.

What is truer than truth? Answer: the story.

Vampire. Dangerous. Unknowable. Seriously creepy. This one's name was Constantine. We'd met before.

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

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

That's the trouble with a story spinner. You never know what's real and what's made up. Even when they are telling the truth, they can't stop themselves from spinning it into something better; something prettier, with more of a pattern to it.

He says every story has at least some truth in it, even if most are made up.

All stories are true.

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.

They weren't true stories; they were better than that.

I am not dangerous. Only the stories are dangerous. Only the fictions we create, especially when they become expectations.

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

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

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

STORY, n. A narrative, commonly untrue. The truth of the stories here following has, however, not been successfully impeached.

The myth works to make the very real things people don't want to look at visible for them.

The truth was stranger than the official fiction.

I believe that nothing that is real can pass away.

Stories," he'd said, his voice low and almost husky, "we are made up of stories. And even the one's that seem the most like lies can be our deepest hidden truths.

Think of my movies as heightening our awareness, not confusing the difference between truth and fiction, but heightening our awareness of how confused we can become about what is real.

Some tropes are universal. Boy meets girl. Betrayal and revenge. The search to discover a hidden truth.... A mother's love isn't cliché, it's universal. These things are archetypes. They're the building blocks of myth and legend. They are a big part about what it means to be human.

What's real and what's true aren't necessarily the same.

Under each station of the real, another glimmers.

Do we walk in legends or on the green earth in the daylight?' A man may do both,' said Aragorn. 'For not we but those who come after will make the legends of our time. The green earth, say you? That is a mighty matter of legend, though you tread it under the light of day!

Some of these things are true and some of them lies. But they are all good stories.