Mythopoeic Fantasy Quotes & Sayings

You abandon most readily those works that have no destination other than your own wishes; there is no editor or producer standing there waiting for them ... I've told every young writer I know to do the job all the way through even if they think it's no good. Then they'll have the precedent of having finished work. — William, Saroyan

In the real world, very smart people fail and mediocre people rise. Part of what makes people fail or succeed are skills that have nothing to do with IQ. Also, the idea that intelligence can be gauged by an IQ test is erroneous. — Camille Paglia

Growth is not merely a harmonious increase in size, but a transformation. — Maria Montessori

There's light and joy, but there's also darkness all around and we can be lost in it. — David Almond

I know the greatness of Christianity; it is a past greatness.. I live in 1924, and the Christian venture is done. — D.H. Lawrence

The Amen of nature is always a flower. — Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.

I feel that classical music should be a more recognizable part of everyone's entertainment. It has been my hope that through live concerts, motion pictures, recordings, international competitions, and interesting public forums, a larger group of people will learn to love classical music and attend live concert performances. — Jose Iturbi

Going public was a difficult decision, and I had misgivings. My subjective experience was now an objective fact in the wider world. It didn't belong to just me anymore - though I quickly learned that it hadn't belonged to just me in the first place. More than a million Americans and their families were going through the same thing; some openly, some in secret due to concerns of being misunderstood and marginalized. — Michael J. Fox

Sometimes it seems to me that all of life is a struggle to contain the natural impulses of the body and spirit, and that what we call character represents only the degree to which we are successful in this endeavor. — Anita Shreve

Evie, bed down." Scanning the dark, he murmured, "You doan have to be scared. I've got you."
You do, don't you? Here we were in the Bagmen's lair, and I wasn't terrified for my life. Jackson would kill
any that strayed too close. In fact, they should fear him.
I was with the boy that monsters should fear. — Kresley Cole

I don't really recognise success. I don't see myself as on an upwardly mobile trajectory. I see myself as on the edge of a cliff about to fall off. — Jonathan Ames

I feel that America is like a child that grew up so strong and so fast and so tall that it became self-conscious about its size and started to stoop over so as not to offend anyone. — Sylvester Stallone

Actors should shut up about politics. They tend to be ill-informed finger-pointers who just cosy up to some flavour of-the-month liberal. — Mickey Rourke

When I write what publishers call 'fantasy' I am writing in what I think is the most important tradition of fiction: starting with Homer and up through Shakespeare and Milton, the most important themes to tackle are those of the mythopoeic domain, tales of the body and mind seen through a temperament and a cosmos divorced from current reality so what is said can be more clear. — Janet Morris