Epic Quote by Colum McCann

I'm struggling with what is epic. People decided I was epic - if by epic, do you mean a big, heavy book? 'David Copperfield'…

— Patrick Rothfuss

But I'm not a small-literary-novel kind of guy, and once I'd developed the world in the first couple of hundred pages, I felt that…

— Neal Stephenson

I like the idea of building this wandering, epic narrative in a form that people don't expect epic narratives to appear.

— Lucas Neff

An epic is not made by piecing together a set of heroic lays, adjusting their discrepancies and making them into a continuous narrative.

— Lascelles Abercrombie

It seems far simpler to go ahead and say that the epic is a fantastic myth, that happens to be true of the material…

— Ursula Goodenough

I'd love to be able to write crazy epic plots. I'm working on it.

— Jami Attenberg

I didn't need to write historical epics, no, or science fiction, though I read a lot of science fiction as a kid and rather…

— John Updike

I do truly believe that the smallest stories can wind up being the biggest because it's through the specific that a writer can best…

— Damien Chazelle

I think the job of writing and literature is to encourage each one of us to believe that we're living in a story.

— Naomi Shihab Nye

I think that, as a writer, while it's your job to construct stories, you have to navigate your way through them with your heart.

— Abi Morgan

Storytelling is storytelling. Good stories need compelling characters and interesting conflicts. That's the bottom line no matter what medium you're writing for.

— D. J. MacHale

We have to think bigger as writers. We have to try and change the world.

— Larry Kramer