I visited Paterson many years ago - 20 some years ago as a kind of day trip because of William Carlos Williams,… — Jim Jarmusch Copy Share Image
How I wished I'd have had a camera of my own, a mad mental camera that could register pictorial shots, of the… — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
I think that pretty much every form of fiction (I’d include fantasy, obviously) can actually be a real escape from places where… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
How we approached this was I wanted this to be personal in a way. It's not a big, epic Hollywood score but… — A. R. Rahman Copy Share Image
I think authors are just realizing there's no real reason to feel limited to a narrow set of genre rules in their… — Patrick Rothfuss Copy Share Image
The style of ancient Egyptian art is transcendently clear, something 8-year-olds can recognize in an instant. Its consistency and codification is one… — Jerry Saltz Copy Share Image
A Concordance of Leaves is an epic poem of the indomitable yet fragile human spirit. Philip Metres brings Palestine and Palestinians into… — Fady Joudah Copy Share Image
While many of my musicals deal with big themes and ideas, I don't intentionally go looking to write shows like that. A… — Stephen Schwartz Copy Share Image
[Donald Trump] spreading preposterous rumors that [Ted] Cruz's father had connections to Lee Harvey Oswald and the assassination of JFK. That put… — Chris Hayes Copy Share Image
Imagine a pantomime directed by Quentin Tarantino, where villains are booed, heroes are blood-stained, the body-count is high, the entertainment pulsating, the… — Henry Winter Copy Share Image
The opportunities of the twenty-first century make those of us who care about cities feel like kids in a candy store: How… — Greg Nickels Copy Share Image
Why haven't we fixed sick yet? You scientists there-- put down those starfish and HELP us. I hereby demand that all the… — Daniel Handler Copy Share Image
I think President Obama is the most radical president this nation's ever seen. And in particular, I think he is a true… — Ted Cruz Copy Share Image
But it is only in epic tragedies that gloom is unrelieved. In real life tragedy and comedy are so intermingled that when… — Georgette Heyer Copy Share Image
For me, there's nothing better than getting immersed in a sprawling, epic, multi-generational family saga, and 'One Hundred Years of Solitude' by… — Jandy Nelson Copy Share Image
The richly cadenced prose is hypnotic, the research prodigious, the analysis acute, the mood spellbinding, and the cast of characters mythic in… — Ron Chernow Copy Share Image
“He wondered what his father had been thinking in those last final moments as he was slipping away, whether the heroism, the… — Barry Kirwan Copy Share Image
Different influences at different times in my career, and some have stayed with me more, some less. Chester Himes. Ralph Dennis, who… — Joe R. Lansdale Copy Share Image
I love that, for Kanye [West], there's no difference between the epic and the personal. That makes him sound like a really… — David Longstreth Copy Share Image
We saw some resistance in the Wichita market until we partnered with EPIC. The increased awareness and information handed out regarding ethanol-enriched… — Mike Hoffman Copy Share Image
It's so much easier to sit home and not exercise and criticize other people. What I love is inspiring people. People come… — Gwyneth Paltrow Copy Share Image
“This, the only occasion in the Iliad when furious Achilles smiles serves as a bittersweet reminder of the difference real leadership could… — Caroline Alexander Copy Share Image
Nature is a book of many pages and each page tells a fascinating story to him who learns her language. Our fertile… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I'm fascinated by the period that goes from the Industrial Revolution to right after World War II. There's something about that period… — Carlos Ruiz Zafon Copy Share Image
There is a part of me that likes things that are epic, that's why I think a lot of my songs go… — Josh Garrels Copy Share Image
Epic things start with small humble steps. Pay respect to your beginnings. And if you're just starting out, know that it's OK… — Vishen Lakhiani Copy Share Image
There is only one thing which can master the perplexed stuff of epic material into unity; and that is, an ability to… — Lascelles Abercrombie Copy Share Image
“Hei! Aa-shanta 'nygh! You are off! Send back earth's gods to their haunts on unknown Kadath, and pray to all space that… — H.P. Lovecraft Copy Share Image
There were epochs in the history of humanity in which the writer was a sacred person. He wrote the sacred books, universal… — Augusto Roa Bastos Copy Share Image
“Whether or not the fame of Gilgamesh of Uruk had reached the Aegean – and the idea is attractive – there can… — N.K. Sandars Copy Share Image
I was nurtured on Greek Mythology and the classical epics. I lived and breathed Homer. Other mythologies - the Russian, the Norse,… — Vera Nazarian Copy Share Image
That is to say, epic poetry has been invented many times and independently; but, as the needs which prompted the invention have… — Lascelles Abercrombie Copy Share Image
Mads [Mikkelsen] and I have a really epic brawl - a week shoot, lots of rehearsal - and he was just delightful.… — Benedict Cumberbatch Copy Share Image
All classes of people under social pressure are permeated with a common experience; they are emotionally welded as others cannot be. With… — Alain LeRoy Locke Copy Share Image
“Skulduggery placed both hands on the table and leaned over. "You've heard about me. You've heard about the things I've done." The… — Derek Landy Copy Share Image
There is always this quarrel about what is preferable: the straight, naturalistic, epic storytelling or the modernistic, disjointed, slightly hermetic one. To… — Per Petterson Copy Share Image
The second volume of Reiner Stach's epic biography of Franz Kafka . . . [is] a tangle of counter-grained and often under-sourced… — Steve Donoghue Copy Share Image
Marriage, which has been the bourne of so many narratives, is still a great beginning, as it was to Adam and Eve,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Writing is the act of creation. Put words on page. Words to sentences, sentences to paragraphs, paragraphs to 7-book epic fantasy cycles… — Chuck Wendig Copy Share Image
I wanted the feel in these books to be like an epic fantasy, with kings, queens, dukes and court politics, but of… — Kevin J. Anderson Copy Share Image
![“[Donald Trump] spreading preposterous rumors that [Ted] Cruz's father had connections to Lee Harvey Oswald and the assassination of JFK. That put a bit of a damper on the bromance ultimately culminating in Cruz's epic non-endorsement at the Republican convention.” quote by Chris Hayes](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/004/chris-hayes-2208_assassination_donald-trump-spreading-preposterous-rumo_2046803.png)
![“I love that, for Kanye [West], there's no difference between the epic and the personal. That makes him sound like a really grandiose douche - which, I don't think anyone, himself included, could contest - but at the same time, it's really amazing. I love the scope of his perfectionism.” quote by David Longstreth](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/ba5/david-longstreth-8561_contests_i-love-that-for-kanye-west-there-s-no-di_1171023.jpg)
![“Mads [Mikkelsen] and I have a really epic brawl - a week shoot, lots of rehearsal - and he was just delightful. He's a dancer and a gymnast so he knows how to plant the moves. He was always saying, "Are you okay?" When you've got that level of mutual consideration you form a family very quickly.” quote by Benedict Cumberbatch](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/b4c/benedict-cumberbatch-1156_consideration_mads-mikkelsen-and-i-have-a-really-epic_3036171.jpg)
![“The second volume of Reiner Stach's epic biography of Franz Kafka . . . [is] a tangle of counter-grained and often under-sourced life stories, but reading Stach's magnificent narrative (wonderfully translated by Shelley Frisch) straight through brings death, not life, to the forefront. Stach is a…” quote by Steve Donoghue](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/403/steve-donoghue-65237_biographies_the-second-volume-of-reiner-stach-s-epic_1005325.jpg)
