“Since 1977, there have been many science fiction movies, but none has managed to equal [A New Hope's] blend of adventure, likable characters, and epic storytelling.” Has BeensCharacterFictionAdventureEqualScience FictionStorytellingEpicNew HopeScience Fiction Movie Author:James Berardinelli
“History presents the pleasantest features of poetry and fiction,--the majesty of the epic, the moving accidents of the drama, the surprises and moral of the romance. Wallace is a ruder Hector; Robinson Crusoe is not stranger that Croesus; the Knights of Ashby never burnish the page of Scott with richer lights of lance and armor than the Carthaginians, winding down the Alps, cast upon Livy.” LightRomanceMovingFictionMoralHistoryDramaPagesSurpriseCastsStrangerAccidentsFeaturesEpicMajestyKnightsArmorAlpsHectorRobinson CrusoeWinding Down Book:Pleasures of Literature Source: Pleasures of Literature
“In a sense, you're always mythologizing your life; it's always an effort to make yourself epic. At least in fiction you can lie and sort of justify your delusion about your "epicness." But when you're writing a memoir, you're trying to make your life epic and it's not - nobody's life is.” WritingTryingLife IsLyingEffortFictionMemoirDelusionJustifyEpic Author:Sherman Alexie
“I don't think the latest Star Wars pictures have any artistic intentions, but the original picture opened up epic science fiction.” ThinkingWarStarsFictionOriginalsScience FictionIntentionArtisticEpic Author:William Monahan
“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 fiction writer, why not take on something that means something. In doing this, you must understand that within that epic structure it is the tiny story that is possibly more important.” IfsThinkingMeanImportantStoriesJobsFictionStructureTinyWhy NotEpicFiction Writers Author:Colum McCann
“Cut quarrels out of literature, and you will have very little history or drama or fiction or epic poetry left.” LittlesLiteratureLeftFictionCuttingDramaEpicQuarrelsHygieneEpic Poetry Author:Robert Staughton Lynd