Jodi Picoult Quotes

Legend: A lie that has attained the dignity of age.

It's no sin to tell a good story.

People love a good story, even if it's a story that has very little truth to it.

I love stories, I love myths, I love fairytales, I love Kafka.

All great novels are great fairy tales.

To begin with, I want to tell a good story, a story that people will listen to and that they'll think this is true, even if it is a story that might be defined as - as myth or legend or even fanciful.

I think the story is the most ancient form of human entertainment.

When I was little, I made up my own fairy tales, and the ghostly echo of 'Once upon a time' shapes all the fiction I've ever written.

Combine two words, Myth and History. What do you get? Mystery.

Generally speaking, it has been my ambition to write as a good old nurse will speak when she tells fairy tales.

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.

Jack’s life had more to do with myth, legend, saga, and story than with political theory or political science.

Fairy tales and folk tales are part of the DNA of all stories and great fun to write.

Myths are fun, as long as you don't confuse them with the truth.

History has its truth; and so has legend hers.

The fairy tale, which to this day is the first tutor of children because it was once the first tutor of mankind, secretly lives on in the story. The first true storyteller is, and will continue to be, the teller of fairy tales. Whenever good counsel was at a premium, the fairy tale had it, and where the need was greatest, its aid was nearest. This need was created by myth. The fairy tale tells us of the earliest arrangements that mankind made to shake off the nightmare which myth had placed upon its chest.

Books do pretend ...but squeezed in between is even more that is true—without what you may call the lies, the pages would be too light for the truth, you see?

Just so you know, when they say "Once upon a time” . . . they’re lying

[Science fiction is] a mode of romance with a strong inherent tendency to myth.

Myth is nothing more than ancient gossip.

Children, only animals live entirely in the Here and Now. Only nature knows neither memory nor history. But man - let me offer you a definition - is the storytelling animal. Wherever he goes he wants to leave behind not a chaotic wake, not an empty space, but the comforting marker-buoys and trail-signs of stories. He has to go on telling stories. He has to keep on making them up. As long as there's a story, it's all right. Even in his last moments, it's said, in the split second of a fatal fall - or when he's about to drown - he sees, passing rapidly before him, the story of his whole life.

At the heart of every legend there is a grain of truth.

I've always been into having stories told to me. I was a voracious reader, my father was also a teller of tales; and the kind of Baron Munchausen proxy of a tall tale was much more interesting than a true tale.

For every once upon a time there must be a story to follow, because if a story doesn't, something else will, and it might not be as harmless as a story.

I'm just a story teller.