Top 100 Quotes About Epic Fantasy
#1. If Robert Benchley and Dorothy Parker had teamed up to write epic fantasy, something like Split Heirs might have resulted.
John DeChancie
#2. What are you thinking about?"
"Whether they'll write my life story as a tragedy or an epic fantasy.
Maggie Stiefvater
#3. I think authors are just realizing there's no real reason to feel limited to a narrow set of genre rules in their writing. There's no reason a mystery novel can't have fantastic elements in it. Similarly, there's no reason why your epic fantasy series can't have elements of a mystery.
Patrick Rothfuss
#4. My first three manuscripts were epic fantasy - like high fantasy - and then the fourth one was a historical fantasy about Mozart as a child. I still have a soft spot for that one!
Marie Lu
#5. A reviewer once commented that my urban fantasy novels were paced more like epic fantasy, in that they relied on complex world-building and a gradual immersion in the lives of the characters.
Laura Anne Gilman
#6. The next morning, boom! She found herself waking in bed next to the handsome, rogue-supporting character of her favourite novel. Out of the blue, Mary Sue was inside the #1 bestseller, epic fantasy novel ever written.
Mads Sukalikar
#7. I wanted the feel in these books to be like an epic fantasy, with kings, queens, dukes and court politics, but of course like what I was explaining before, about making the science make sense, you have to make the politics make sense, too.
Kevin J. Anderson
#8. Writing is the act of creation. Put words on a page, words to sentences, sentences to paragraphs, paragraphs to seven-book epic fantasy cycles with books so heavy you could choke a hippo. But don't give writing too much power, either. A wizard controls his magic; it doesn't control him.
Chuck Wendig
#9. When I was thirteen years old, I didn't exactly discover epic fantasy on my own. I acquired it as a social defence mechanism.
Tansy Rayner Roberts
#10. With epic fantasy, there is a tendency for it to be quintessentially conservative in that its job is to restore what is perceived to be out of whack.
N.K. Jemisin
#11. Whether they'll write the story of my life as a tragedy or an epic fantasy ... I was wondering if it was going to be a kiss at the end, or sad music and a sweeping camera shot over the fields I once roamed freely. I'm hoping for the kiss, but expecting the sweeping camera shot.
Maggie Stiefvater
#12. When I first started working on 'Staying Dead,' I got some well-meaning but negative feedback from industry folk because - back in 2001 - epic fantasy was still the big thing, alternate history a tight runner-up.
Laura Anne Gilman
#13. The classic epic fantasy is good versus evil, underdog against power.
Laura Anne Gilman
#14. I wouldn't know how to write a weak female character. I read so much epic fantasy growing up, where you have these sword-wielding, in-your-face warrior maidens.
Richelle Mead
#15. In the electronic game world, I know I have a reputation for doing the cyberpunk thing, and for doing the serious epic fantasy thing, but if you go back to when I was a kid, I've been a Disney fan all my life.
Warren Spector
#16. In the 'Dreamblood' books, I'm focusing more on what I like about epic fantasy: the layering and depth of tension; the chance to really delve into the minutia of an alternate society and its politics; a large cast of characters to love and hate.
N.K. Jemisin
#18. Fate is a tricky animal. Those who believe they harness it, often find a difficult beast to master.
Daniel McHugh
#19. I'm like a toy to her, a toy that someone has promised her. Maybe not her favorite, but still hers.
Nicole Gulla
#20. 'Temeraire' is a terrific meld of two genres that I particularly love - fantasy and historical epic.
Peter Jackson
#21. We live in the most epic of fantasy worlds.
T.L. Rese
#22. Small men command the letter of the law. Great men serve its spirit. For the spirit of the law is justice ... and justice is the spirit of God.
J.C. Marino
#23. It was just as all the Kettral said: You went to Hook to escape your problems and came back with a dozen more.
Brian Staveley
#24. I'm asking you to love me and let me... die.
Sara Raasch
#25. When a mortal man breaks a people, it is always blamed on the gods.
S.M. White
#26. I turn back to Griffin. His expression is stony and unreadable, although if I had to take a wild guess, I'd say it was tending toward ominous.
Amanda Bouchet
#27. Your best disguise is the strong impression your enemy has of you. Strong...and dead wrong.
Michael Joseph Murano
#28. 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. I take the chakram, my eyes on Mather. "I'm not me without it, am I?"
A smile flips across his face before he shakes his head. "You're perfect the way you are.
Sara Raasch
#30. I came here as a son seeking his father's approval, hoping you could recognize what she and I have. But, it appears you're business as usual.
Nicole Gulla
#31. No apologies. No matter what happens, I will never, not in a thousand tragic outcomes, ever regret loving you.
Sara Raasch
#32. I eyed the sheriff. "So I better be breathing when He finds me." "Who the hell are you talking about?" the sheriff blurted.
I chuckled.
The postman sneered at the sheriff. "She means the Demon King. The Devil. This is a phone from Hell - the real one.
H.D. Smith
#34. No matter our dire circumstances, no matter our shared upbringing, no matter the chill his smile sends over my body, he's still him, and I'm still me, and yes, he needs to have a female heir someday, but with a proper lady, a duchess or a princess - not the girl who spars with him.
Sara Raasch
#35. Choose your battles wisely and remember, what the heart knows, walks afar from reason. It simply is.
Angelo Tsanatelis
#36. 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
#37. It's death and destruction I want to bring down upon House Lannister, not scorn. Jon said.
George R R Martin
#38. I must complete my quest or I will die.
H.D. Smith
#39. Long has black powder been in the hands of dwarves alone.
Alas, winds ever change and nothing remains the same forever.
Lord Arrlo Salkeld
J.P. Ashman
#40. Isn't this a little... morbid?"...
"Morbid?" I mange half a smile. "Or cathartic?"
"Most cathartic things are morbid," he amends. "Healing through melancholy."
I roll my eyes. "Leave it to you to find something poetic about slicing off the heads of snowmen.
Sara Raasch
#42. I am going to go into this world, and I don't care if you and your narrow mind cannot be a part of it.
Elise Kova
#43. It's amazing what desperation can do to a person. It can seep into the heart. Turn us into the very monsters we fight." -Vexis
C.M. Hayden
#44. Dolchyme: "It's ... just that ... we don't get many of your kind around here. Stormling folk and all that.
Anadyr: "I'm a Storm Lord, actually."
Dolchyme: "Sheesk - if I'm not in the presence of royalty then.
John Hennessy
#45. Hades, Hera, and Hestia!" Flynn curses, pointing up.
"What in the Underworld is that?"
"A She-Dragon." Everyone turns to me, and as much as I love having four handsome men gape at me in stupefaction, right now, I could do without.
Amanda Bouchet
#46. There was a feeling on the air like the eve of the end of the world ...
Billie-Jo Williams
#47. Down they went, into the darkness. Down ancient, worn steps coated in slippery mildew. Down into the deep recesses of the earth, far beneath the corridors of Deep-Spire.
Sam J. Charlton
#48. The rhythm of fraught footsteps and fervent heartbeat orchestrated a symphony of anticipation and dread.
Brian A. McBride
#49. I didn't have to think about the word love with Collin because I just felt it. This was love. And. I. Loved. Him.
Nicole Gulla
#50. I'll believe that when the Underworld freezes over and Centaurs fly.
Amanda Bouchet
#51. Maybe I'll trust him to fight my monsters while I sleep. Maybe I don't have a choice.
His voice is fierce in my ear. "You're mine now, Cat. Don't you dare die on me.
Amanda Bouchet
#52. If honor were reserved only for those who never err, none of us would be worthy, Rain answered.
C.L. Wilson
#53. I am not a good man, shei'tani," he corrected. "I never have been. But for you I will strive to be better.
C.L. Wilson
#54. I don't know why it's not universally acknowledged that looking back is a terrible idea. It only makes going forward that much harder.
Amanda Bouchet
#55. Lucifer unbound his absolution
His purpose took unstoppable form
A wyrm whose brilliance blinded
Tenacity burned as radiant as the Almighty
Lucifer remembered this so vividly
A fond memory of when God stood thunderstruck
D.J. LeMarr
#56. I braced my hands on my hips, examining the drop, the trees, the lake beyond. "What did I do wrong?"
Azriel, who had been sharpening Truth-Teller in his lap, flicked his hazel eyes up to me. "Aside from the tree?
Sarah J. Maas
#59. Hello, Lady Witch," he said, breaking into a brazen grin. "Sorry to see you're laid up again."
"Occupational hazard," Lily mumbled...
Josephine Angelini
#60. I want you. I need you. For as many hours as possible, I don't want to think about anything but you.
Amanda Bouchet
#61. All great gifts come with a great price, Bel murmured.
C.L. Wilson
#62. There's not a Fey warrior born who does not dream of finding his truemate, so at night, after my parents went to bed, I would sneak out of the shellaba and lie beneath the stars and ask the gods if they could somehow find a way to give a tairen a truemate.
C.L. Wilson
#63. Beauty to beguile, spies to ensnare, and gold, always gold, to tempt, to trap, to control.
Karen Azinger
#64. ELANTRIS is a new BEN HUR for the fantasy genre, with a sweeping, epic storyline and closely personal characters.
Kevin J. Anderson
#65. Most tales carry a kernel of truth, else they're soon forgotten.
Karen Azinger
#66. Shei'tani ... wilt thou swim with thy beloved in a river of dreams?
C.L. Wilson
#67. Enemy," hiss the bushes all around. The rest of the Pride glided forward, surrounding Lily, Rowan, and Spike.
Josephine Angelini
#68. 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
#69. The warlord pierces me with a hard stare. "We can do this the easy way, or the hard way."
"Or no way, " I retort.
Amanda Bouchet
#70. Like seduction, the Priestess took poisoning to an art form.
Karen Azinger
#71. You are a force rarely born to a world, something we Elves call leinah thaniel, the Song that sings all Songs, the Mirror that shows all Mirrors, the Change that changes everything.
C.L. Wilson
#72. 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
#73. The first time I saw Cricket, I loved her. Little did I know that skinny, goofy girl would one day grow up to be a great dragon slayer. I would have pegged her for a shoemaker.
Ash Gray
#74. Cricket glanced down when she saw a cookie slide under the wall. She plucked the cookie from the ground and bit into it, dirt and all. It was so disgusting, her eyes watered, but she was starving, so she choked it down.
Ash Gray
#75. 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
#76. 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
#77. Cricket nodded apologetically. She ripped the blankets back and hopped off her bed. Enkai snorted out a laugh, and it took her a moment to realize she wasn't wearing pants.
Ash Gray
#79. It made the woman feel like a thousand seas had come together from all worlds, like faraway lands had been bridged together, and the vastness of the known and the unknown were somehow easier to comprehend.
Cristina M. Sburlea
#80. The only wand you'll ever need is a better-feeling thought.
C.G. Rousing
#81. His tongue swirls against my skin, and I gasp. His voice rough with passion, he rasps, "You're living fire. I burn.
Amanda Bouchet
#82. I don't want you to go." She reached up to touch his face and pull him down to her. "I want this, Rain. I want you.
C.L. Wilson
#83. I let my towel drop to the carpet.
Let him look me over as I put a hand on his chest, his heart raging beneath my palm.
"Ready for ravishing.
Sarah J. Maas
#85. He looked up at the stars as the storm closed in and saw them extinguished, one-by-one, until just two remained. They glimmered and shone through gaps in the clouds like two great eyes in the darkness, burning on a demon's face that chased him across the sea.
Brooke Burgess
#86. I wanted to be a soldier. Someone who would earn standing in Winter. Someone Sir would look at with pride. Someone Mather would look at and -
Sara Raasch
#88. Griffin's eyes capture mine. He holds my face in his hands. "You. Belong. With. Me.
Amanda Bouchet
#89. It wasn't supposed to be this way. Griffin asked me to take a chance. On him. On trust. On love. I did, and look where it got me. That my misery is my own damn fault doesn't escape me. It just makes it worse.
Amanda Bouchet
#91. I know, but still. Hear this now, Mina," he paused. "You are the truest of truths and in some alternate universe where people could be whatever they wanted, you would be Queen.
Chelsea Ballinger
#92. A dream? With you, reality is always as a dream. There is no greater fantasy, no grander epic, than being with you.
Zechariah Barrett
#93. A man could only spend so much of his time ignoring the present before the present made him a thing of the past.
S.M. White
#94. Collin, how do you do it?"
He tilted his head as he looked at me. "Do what?"
"Make me feel this way."
"I could ask you the same question.
Nicole Gulla
#95. 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
#96. His hand trailed down the side of her face, brushing back spiraling tendrils of hair. Come, shei'tani, dance the skiles with your mate.
C.L. Wilson
#98. Not everyone who spoke to you friendly was really your friend.
George R R Martin
#99. When I dreamed about becoming a fantasy adventurer, I was always a max-level character with epic gear. Look at me. I'm wearing vendor trash.
Noelle Alladania Meade
#100. Every moment we have is one more moment that can't be taken from us.
Sara Raasch
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