Quotes About Myth

Legends need not concern themselves with something as small as happiness.

The more horrible the story, the more it is cherished. Faeries may not be able to lie, but stories grow here as they do anywhere, fed on ambition and envy and desire.

Widzisz, ?adna cz??? tej ba?ni nie by?a k?amstwem, cho? historia by?a zupe?nie nieprawdziwa.

Have you ever heard this one? When you drive past a cemetery, you have to hold your breath. If you don't, the spirits of the newly dead can get in your body through your mouth and then they can possess you.

And let's debunk one bit of writer myth while we're here: Doing a seventeenth revision on a project does not make a writer an artist or move him above the writer hoi polloi any more than dressing entirely in black or wearing tweed jackets with leather elbow patches or big, black drover coats. These are all affectations, and smack of dilettantism. Real writers, and real artists, finish books and move on to the next project.

It's one of our favorite American myths that broad plains necessarily make broad minds, and high mountains make high purpose.

We know there aren't little green men running around this planet touching peepees.

Detoxing is a myth, darling, it's been debunked! Your liver does it for you. Or maybe it's your kidneys. It's all taken care of somehow.

The great myth of our times is that technology is communication.

And so, ladies and gentlemen, you can take as fact the four words I'm about to speak—though I speak them with some regret, since I enjoy cryptozoological legends as much as the next man: There ain't no Nessie." This

I always looked for a man to rescue me and bring me happiness. I bought into that myth, of course, and looked for my own Prince Charming.

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

I may have spent long enough in your orbit to have absorbed your ferocious conviction that a happy family cannot be a mere myth or that even if it is, better to die trying for the fine if unattainable than sulking in passive, cynical resignation that hell is other people you're related to.

What a myth never contains is the critical power to separate its truths from its errors.

Those on Whom Legends Are Built Are Their Legends

Your father was not a boss-eyed sailor. Or a rapist. He was a legend.

The strength of the vampire is that people will not believe in him.

Over the years all these vampire movies have come out and nobody looks like a vampire anymore.

I don't want to be a sexy vampire.

The vampire story is something that has existed since 'Nosferatu,' and I don't think it's gonna go away.

As you study vampire legend throughout history, it goes back to almost every culture. South Africa, Indonesia, crazy places have that legend and that idea of immortality.

The phenomenon of vampires has always appealed to me. Everyone kind of likes a vampire story because it almost could be true.

Most vampires I have discovered are men for some reason. I guess it's because of Dracula; people are kind of feeding off that.

When I started writing about vampires, I swore that I wouldn't touch the 'Dracula' legend because it's been done too many times.