Top 42 Epic Fiction Quotes
#1. Seek Knowledge, Protect Knowledge, Share Knowledge.
Karen Azinger
#2. The only wand you'll ever need is a better-feeling thought.
C.G. Rousing
#3. 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.
Sherman Alexie
#5. But in the end it is only a passing thing ... this shadow. Even darkness must pass. - Samwise Gamgee, The Two Towers
J.R.R. Tolkien
#6. We don't tend to write about disease in fiction - not just teen novels but all American novels - because it doesn't fit in with our idea of the heroic romantic epic. There is room only for sacrifice, heroism, war, politics and family struggle.
John Green
#8. One can lose themselves in the twilight, when there are no colors to guide the way.
Vanna Smythe
#9. Careful, mother, or you could end up dangling in another's webs.
Karen Azinger
#10. I don't think the latest Star Wars pictures have any artistic intentions, but the original picture opened up epic science fiction.
William Monahan
#11. The mind that thought of light, heavy, grey, yellow, still, swift, also conceived of magic that would make heavy things light and be able to fly, turn grey lead into yellow gold, and the still rock into a swift water.
J.R.R. Tolkien
#13. Go in peace! I will not say: do not weep; for not all tears are an evil. - Gandalf the Grey, The Return of the King
J.R.R. Tolkien
#14. My strings are being pulled, this time by a different puppet master.
Emilyann Girdner
#15. You think I could meet the most amazing person and not know how I could see her again?
Nicole Gulla
#16. We've seen firsthand the footprints of the Mordant's treachery.
Karen Azinger
#17. Those who die never truly leave us. They are forever there beyond the shimmering of light at the edge of sight.
Vanna Smythe
#20. You are blessed with a knack for sucking the wonder out of the extraordinary.
Daniel McHugh
#21. We forgive only that which requires forgiveness. To do otherwise is wasteful of grace.
Laniel, Abbot of Bilkar the Furred
Jordan MacLean
#23. We live in the most epic of fantasy worlds.
T.L. Rese
#24. Not that length and weight alone indicate excellence; many epic tales are pretty much epic crap.
Stephen King
#25. 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.
James Berardinelli
#26. Cut quarrels out of literature, and you will have very little history or drama or fiction or epic poetry left.
Robert Staughton Lynd
#27. Reflections of the battlements shimmered in the deep green moat, casting an image of enduring strength, an image that defied the very siege of time.
Karen Azinger
#29. Fiction is entertaining. Nonfiction is epic.
A.D. Posey
#30. All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given to us.
- Gandalf the Grey, The Fellowship of the Ring
J.R.R. Tolkien
#31. It would ha' been a good deal easier, if ye'd only been a witch.
Diana Gabaldon
#32. The rhythm of fraught footsteps and fervent heartbeat orchestrated a symphony of anticipation and dread.
Brian A. McBride
#34. Beauty to beguile, spies to ensnare, and gold, always gold, to tempt, to trap, to control.
Karen Azinger
#35. Most tales carry a kernel of truth, else they're soon forgotten.
Karen Azinger
#36. But how can I let him just walk away with a smile on my face and a slap on his back when every cell in my body is tied painfully to him, and I can't breathe when I think of him being away from me?!
Llarjme
#37. A blend of fact and fiction has been used in various forms since the dawn of creative writing, starting with sagas and epic poems.
Antony Beevor
#38. Fantasy novels reveal "emergency escape routes" from reality. Romance novels dish out a banquet of Eye Candy. Otherworldly passion erupts when the two collide in an epic novel of unforgettable characters and dire circumstances.
Sarah J. Pepper
#39. Like seduction, the Priestess took poisoning to an art form.
Karen Azinger
#40. She paused in the doorway, tipping her head to consider Brittany, who only glared. "You're right. I think most girls don't look like the tooth fairy dresses them every day.
Wendy Knight
#41. With every fall of the sun and rise of the moon, I can hear it. The Prophecy. It echoes through the halls of time. It is written on the surface of every star. Even the sun and moon cannot withhold the news of the second coming. I hear it. And I fear it.
Brian A. McBride
#42. Isn't it amazing?" I asked. "How the ocean bows to the moon."
"Some people believe that it is the lure of the moon that compels the ocean's waves to swell. I believe that it's the ocean's dance that entices the moon's rays to shine upon it,
Nicole Gulla
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