I don't believe in myths of decline or myths of progress, even as regards the literary scene.
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Myths are a waste of time. They prevent progression.
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.
It is a sure sign that a culture has reached a dead end when it is no longer intrigued by its myths.
Myths which are believed in tend to become true.
Mythologies become exhausting burdens, from a writer's perspective.
Fairly tales are myths, and myths are only myths because there's a grain of truth in them.
It's the historian's job not to ridicule the myths, but to show the difference between myth and reality.
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.
Well documented, the relationship of literature to myth in the Western world has undergone much change over the millennia, as first the age of gods fell away before the notion of a single god, and then, for many people, that single god slipped away, too.
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