Building Quote by Lucas Neff

Every so often, you want to map out your plot mythology but never so specifically that you can't let a story surprise you. You…

— Eric Kripke

I've always been a big believer that you can use the elements of storytelling to bring the reader along and to hopefully illuminate a…

— David Grann

Good stories must travel through conflict. And in epic stories, the conflict must become unbearable.

— Donald Miller

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

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

— Jami Attenberg

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

Stories are compasses and architecture, we navigate by them, we build our sanctuaries and our prisons out of them, and to be without a…

— Rebecca Solnit

“The Greatest epic is your own life’s story. From the moment you set your foot outside your mother’s womb, an epic is set into…

— K Hari Kumar

I feel like there's already a written narrative going on everywhere. All the different situations and realities you're in, like words floating by. It's…

— Bill Callahan

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 love intricate plotting and exciting twists, but I realize more that people enjoy a good story in a simple, focused way.

— Evan Daugherty

Narrative becomes the way you make sense of chaos. That's how you focus the world. It's the only reason you should ever try this…

— Dennis Lehane