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

— Lucas Neff

I think it is our job, as writers, to be epic. Epic and tiny at the same time. If you're going to be a…

— Colum McCann

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 think, in the grand epic, Jesus is the hero of our stories. And our stories, as they were, are subplots in a grand…

— Donald Miller

The higher Greek poetry did not make up fictitious plots; its business was to express the heroic saga, the myths.

— Gilbert Murray

True heroics must be carefully planned - and strenuously avoided.

— Steven Brust

Myths and creeds are heroic struggles to comprehend the truth in the world.

— Ansel Adams

The first epics were intended for recitation; the literary epic is meant to be read.

— Lascelles Abercrombie

The heroic cannot be the common, nor the common the heroic.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Storytelling reveals meaning without committing the error of defining it.

— Hannah Arendt

You mean you have to be epic already, for it to make you more epic?

— Karen Marie Moning

“Heroic poetry tends in its simplest form to be concerned with immediate events and local heroes. A certain length of tradition is required before…

— Richard Barber