Catherine Fisher Quotes

Like legend and myth, magic fades when it is unused.

Myth is, after all, the neverending story.

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

I do love mythology.

I'd go into the woods to look for the witches, the mythical beings.

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

History has its truth; and so has legend hers.

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.

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

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.

Legends are all to do with the past and nothing to do with the present.

There have been a number of us working very, very hard to bring myth and fairy tales into public consciousness, through fantasy literature and other media. I hope we're succeeding in some small way.

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

History is a distillation of rumor.

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.

Witches were part of my imaginary childhood playground, so I wanted to make an archetypal fairytale about the mythic idea of what New England was to me as a kid.

George Clinton is the best storyteller in the world.

Mythologies are violent things, and to be true to them, you have to go to primal territory.

I think horror or science fiction is another way of telling a modern myth - it's like Ancient Greece; it's like kids couldn't wait for the next 'Orpheus' story, the next 'Jason and the Argonauts.'

I have a bit of a love affair with fairy tales and some of the ideas of Irish mythology, like Oscar Wilde and W.B. Yeats, who captured a lot of that very beautifully.

A myth is something that never was but that is always happening.

Do we call the star lost that is hidden / In the great light of morn?

All legends have a base in fact.