Saga Quotes
64 Saga quotes by 53 unique authors
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Write about small, self-contained incidents that are still vivid in your memory. If you remember them, it's because they contain a larger truth that your…
— William Zinsser
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Giving governors more leeway in administering health care could represent a small, positive development in the ongoing saga of Obamacare. Unfortunately, instead of choosing flexibility,…
— Fred Upton
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As one of the first editors at 'Outside' magazine in 1975, it was my contention that most American writing going back to James Fennimore Cooper…
— Tim Cahill
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If epic poetry is a definite species, the sagas do not fall within it.
— Lascelles Abercrombie
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The history of science is the saga of nature defying common sense.
— Kedar Joshi
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Stars scribble on our eyes the frosty sagas, The gleaming cantos of unvanquished space. (Cape Hatteras
— Hart Crane
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Roots is not just a saga of my family. It is the symbolic saga of a people.
— Alex Haley
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Shakespeare is in many ways an African writer and 'Hamlet' would be seen as a very accurate historical saga about an African kingdom.
— Henning Mankell
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There have only been about a half dozen genuinely important events in the four-billion-year saga of life on Earth: single-celled life, multicelled life, differentiation into…
— Elon Musk
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If you don't have the story and the unfolding of the trajectory of the saga, it's like getting in a car and not having any…
— Gus Van Sant
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I think over the course of 14 films, I'm returning to a place that I know to tell a story... the same way Spielberg returned…
— Gus Van Sant
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Arguably, the relationship between Liza Minnelli and Judy Garland is one of the great mother-daughter sagas of all time. Certainly, for certain people, and a…
— Rufus Wainwright
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With 'Black Swan,' the ballerina saga flips its tiara and goes on a hallucinatory bender, a scary acid trip where transfiguration and disfiguration meet.
— James Wolcott
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I Need a Good Book I need a good story. I need a good book. The kind that explodes Off the shelf. I need some…
— John Lithgow
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Look after my heart - I've left it with you.
— Stephenie Meyer
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Speaking of which, would you like to explain to me how you’re alive
— Stephenie Meyer
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I may not be a human, but I am a man.
— Stephenie Meyer
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To think that only faultless people are worthwhile seems like an incredible exclusion of almost everything of deep value in the human saga. Sometimes I…
— Marilynne Robinson
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If this is how you’re going to react, I’ll freak out more often.
— Stephenie Meyer
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Just you wait till I’m a vampire! I’m not going to be sitting on the sidelines next time.
— Stephenie Meyer
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Time passes, as the novelist says. The single most useful trick of fiction for our repair and refreshment: the defeat of time. A century of…
— Richard Powers
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My child, you have a flawed grasp of the nature of myth-making. I am a poet and storyteller, a creator of ballads and sagas. Pray…
— Frances Hardinge
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Why vampires? You write centuries-long family sagas—why not write historical epics without any hint of the supernatural?" "Well, that would be boring, wouldn't it?"…
— Carrie Vaughn
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Yeah, it's an off day when I don't get somebody telling me how edible I smell." - Bella Swan.
— Stephenie Meyer
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Mother used to say escape is never further than the nearest book. Well, Mumsy, no, not really. Your beloved large-print sagas of rags, riches, and…
— David Mitchell
Who Wrote These Saga Quotes
53 authors contributed a total of 64 Saga Quotes, led by these top contributors: