Myths are fun, as long as you don't confuse them with the truth.
But the tale or narrative set in the past may have its particular time-free value; and the candid reader will not misunderstand me, will not suppose that I intend any preposterous comparison, when I observe that Homer was farther removed in time from Troy than I am from the Napoleonic wars; yet he spoke to the Greeks for 2,000 years and more.
Storytelling is our oldest form of remembering the promises we have made to one another and to our various gods, and the promises given in return; it is a way of recording our human emotions and desires and taboos.
You don't have to believe that there was a King Arthur to get the significance of those stories, but Christians say we have to believe there was a Christ, or the miracles don't make sense.
All the ancient histories, as one of our wits say, are just fables that have been agreed upon
Legends are often destroyed by those in need of its stuff.
I offer detailed but mostly invented narratives about the provenance of my books.
There are people. There are stories. The people think they shape the stories, but the reverse if often closer to the truth. Stories shape the world. They exist independently of people, and in places quite devoid of man, there may yet be mythologies.
Lies, fables and romances must needs be probable, but not the truth and foundation of our faith.
Every culture has their myths that people are aware of and share.
And then he tells her stories. Myths he learned from his instructor. Fantasies he created himself, inspired by bits and pieces of others read in archaic books with crackling spines.
Like legend and myth, magic fades when it is unused.
It is quite easy to see why a legend is treated, and ought to be treated, more respectfully than a book of history. The legend is generally made by the majority of people in the village, who are sane. The book is generally written by the one man in the village who is mad.
We have such a young culture that there is an opportunity to contribute wonderful new myths to it, which will be accepted.
Alright, all right," I said. "What if I tell you a story, instead?" Highlanders loved stories, and Jamie was no exception. "Oh, aye, " he said, sounding much happier. "What sort of story is it?
A myth is a lie that conveys a truth.
Do you believe in fairy tales?" "What...what kind of fairy tales?" "The kind you aren't supposed to waste your life on.
Strangely enough, there's this mythology sprouting out that I cannot stop.
India is a place where all stories are possible. You forget that the imagination can take hold of anything and contemplate it and love it and describe it.
I grew up falling in love with kind of story, amazing, wonder tale of the East, which if you're a child growing up in India is all around you.And I think one of the gifts it gave me as a writer was this early knowledge that stories are not true.
There are so many good stories about the Vikings.
Facts interest me less than the trailing smoke of stories.
Myths and legends die hard in America. We love them for the extra dimension they provide, the illusion of near-infinite possibility to erase the narrow confines of most men's reality. Weird heroes and mould-breaking champions exist as living proof to those who need it that the tyranny of 'the rat race' is not yet final.
The moment there is imagination there is myth
Myths and legends die hard in America.
