Joanna Scott Quotes

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.

The human world is made of stories, not people. The people the stories use to tell themselves are not to be blamed

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

The best fantasy does not offer an answer to our lives, it is an offering that acknowledges enough of the truth to resonate and add to the understanding about the human condition.

I believe in everything until it's disproved. So I believe in fairies, the myths, dragons. It all exists, even if it's in your mind. Who's to say that dreams and nightmares aren't as real as the here and now?

There must be possible a fiction which, leaving sociology and case histories to the scientists, can arrive at the truth about the human condition, here and now, with all the bright magic of the fairy tale.

I knew there was something special about the theater for me something beyond the regular reality, something that I could get into and transcend and become something other than myself.

Questions are fiction, and answers are anything from more fiction to science-fiction.

'Legend of the Seeker' - it has new and interesting creatures and magic, but it's the stories.

The truth is always less interesting than the fiction.

If I'm gonna tell a real story, I'm gonna start with my name.

I make it all up, and all of it is true.

People don't like reality, they like crazy stories.

But this is my truth; I who am Morgaine tell you these things, Morgaine who was in later days called Morgan le Fay.

The human world is made of stories, not people.

I think that most of us, anyway, read these stories that we know are not "true" because we're hungry for another kind of truth: the mythic truth about human nature in general, the particular truth about those life-communities that define our own identity, and the most specific truth of all: our own self-story. Fiction, because it is not about someone who lived in the real world, always has the possibility of being about oneself. --From the Introduction

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

I'm the Beast. You're the Beauty," he said. "It's all a story, isn't it?

Brooklyn was a dream. All the things that happened there just couldn't happen. It was all dream stuff. Or was it all real and true and was it that she, Francie, was the dreamer?

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

The job of a storyteller is to speak the truth. But what we feel most deeply can’t be spoken in words alone. At this level, only images connect. And here, story becomes symbol; symbol is myth. And myth is truth.

It's all those stories and how they braid together that tells us who and what and where we are

Who would you be without your story?

Then I went back into the house and wrote, It is midnight. The rain is beating on the windows. It was not midnight. It was not raining.

The universe is not made up of atoms; it’s made up of tiny stories.