Sagas Quotes

16 quotes by 16 authors

I read American sagas (of the west) and I do not see people who went in search of material things. I see people who wrote… — Alan Keyes
Today the children of our public schools are taught more of the history, heroes, legends, and sagas of the old world than of the land… — Luther Standing Bear
A personal story of the horrors that Poles lived through during World War II. When God Looked the Other Way, above all else, explains why… — Arnold Beichman
One of the deepest impulses in man is the impulse to record, - to scratch a drawing on a tusk or keep a diary, to… — John Jay Chapman
Vengeance is a strange human motivation --- it can drive a man to do things which he neither would nor could achieve without it ...… — H. Beam Piper
We think that it's the big moments that define our lives-the wedding, the baby, the new house, the dream job. But really, these big moments… — Sarah Ban Breathnach
I read a bit of the Icelandic sagas. They're fascinating in that they are completely ordinary. The farmer will go off into the hills and… — Jonathan Stroud
If epic poetry is a definite species, the sagas do not fall within it. — Lascelles Abercrombie
Stars scribble on our eyes the frosty sagas, The gleaming cantos of unvanquished space. (Cape Hatteras — Hart Crane
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
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
Why vampires? You write centuries-long family sagasâ€”why not write historical epics without any hint of the supernatural?" Â "Well, that would be boring, wouldn't it?"… — Carrie Vaughn
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
Sagas wouldn't be interesting if terrible things didn't happen to the people in them. — Jack Campbell
A blend of fact and fiction has been used in various forms since the dawn of creative writing, starting with sagas and epic poems. — Antony Beevor
It usually takes me about three years to research and write one of my historical sagas; this is one reason why I take medieval mystery… — Sharon Kay Penman

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