Quote

There's a reason that all societies and cultures and small bands of humans engage in myth-making. Fundamentally, it is to help us understand ourselves.

In terms of the mechanics of story, myth is an intriguing one because we didn't make myth up; myth is an imprinture of the human condition.

Myth is an attempt to narrate a whole human experience, of which the purpose is too deep, going too deep in the blood and soul, for mental explanation or description.

Myths are part of our DNA. We're a civilisation with a continuous culture. The effort to modernize it keeps it alive. Readers connect with it.

Myths are stories that express meaning, morality or motivation. Whether they are true or not is irrelevant.

I have a better internal and intuitive understanding of folklore and myth than science and technology, so in that way fantasy is easier.

Myths are wonderful tools that we've had, oh, for eons now that help us navigate the situations we find ourselves in.

I say that a myth is a story which has particular energy, mythic resonance. I always say that a myth is a tear in the fabric of reality through which all of this spiritual energy pours.

All the great legends are Templates for human behavior. I would define a myth as a story that has survived.