“I'm a big John Steinbeck fan. Cormac McCarthy. I've always loved the stories of regular people. Mark Twain, too. When you look back at some of the epic writers of our country's history, very rarely do you find upper-class royalty. We seem to delve into the struggle of life and the labor of life much more frequently.” PeopleLooksCountryStoriesBigsSeemsClassStruggleFansLaborMarkOur CountryEpicRoyaltyLife StruggleUpper Class Author:Lucas Neff
“I think, in the grand epic, Jesus is the hero of our stories. And our stories, as they were, are subplots in a grand epic and our job is not to be the hero of any story. Our job is to be a saint in a story that he is telling.” ThinkingStoriesJobsJesusHeroSaintEpicSubplots Author:Donald Miller
“Evolution isn't just a take-it-or-leave-it story about where we came from. It's an epic at the centre of life itself. It tells us we are part of nature in every respect.” StoriesEvolutionEpicCentreWhere We Came Author:Kenneth R. Miller
“I've always loved the old epics that tell a simple emotional story, whether it's the tumultuous relationship between Rhett and Scarlett or Lawrence of Arabia's passion to get lost in a faraway place.” StoriesPassionLostSimpleEmotionalEpicArabiaFaraway PlacesLawrence Of Arabia Author:Baz Luhrmann
“The Great Story of our immense journey contains crucial lessons for guiding humanity safely through the dangers and confusions evident today. This grand epic will propel us forward in a spirit of expectant curiosity. We will place our trust not only in the Whole but also in our own species' capacity to serve as the vessel through which the evolutionary impulse is most active at this time.” WholeStoriesTodaySpiritHumanityJourneyDangerLessonsCapacitySpeciesCuriosityActiveConfusionImpulseCrucialImmenseEpicEvidentVessel Book:Thank God for Evolution: How the Marriage of Science and Religion Will Transform Your Life and Our World Source: Thank God for Evolution: How the Marriage of Science and Religion Will Transform Your Life and Our World
“Larry Colton’s Ordinary Joes are just like us, yet they endure what we could never imagine, and are ennobled in ways they themselves might not claim. Intimate and epic, unblinking and even-handed, Colton’s engrossing story strips sentimentality and cliché from our notion of hero.” WayStoriesMightImagineHeroOrdinaryClaimsEndureNotionIntimateEpicLarrySentimentality Author:Ron Shelton
“What I wish is that people would look beyond the tribbles and see I've written some other books that I really would like people to notice. There's The Man Who Folded Himself, there's The Martian Child, which is about my son and the adoption. There's The War Against The Chtorr, which is my magnum opus, my great epic story.” PeopleMenLooksChildrenBookWarStoriesWishWrittenSonMy SonAdoptionEpicMartiansEpic Stories Author:David Gerrold
“It seems far simpler to go ahead and say that the epic is a fantastic myth, that happens to be true of the material Universe, that other myths are true in terms of their cultural meaning, and that there's absolutely no problem with holding more than one story, just as there's no problem with viewing the sunset in terms of planetary rotation and spectra and nuclear fusions one moment and as visual splendor the next.” MomentsStoriesProblemSeemsHappensUniverseNextTermMaterialsMythNuclearBeing TrueFantasticVisualsSunsetEpicNo ProblemSplendorFusionRotationNuclear Fusion Author:Ursula Goodenough
“Good stories must travel through conflict. And in epic stories, the conflict must become unbearable.” StoriesConflictEpicUnbearableGood StoryEpic Stories Author:Donald Miller