Quotes About Epic Stories

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

Donald Miller

#2. Epic stories, especially 'quest narratives' like 'The Iliad' and 'The Odyssey,' are brilliant structures for storytelling. The quest lends itself to episodic storytelling.

Simon Toyne

#3. I just think the David O. Selznick story is one of the great, epic stories of Hollywood history that nobody knows. Maybe one of the reasons why nobody knows it is because he wasn't a movie star.

Karina Longworth

#4. I loved him more than I loved pralines and beignets, and that was hardcore, because my love of sugary, sweet things rivaled the most epic love stories known to man.

Jennifer L. Armentrout

#5. I remembered his laugh, like a flock of crows taking off

Maggie Stiefvater

#6. Given my age, I am pretty near the end, probably, of my career as a writer, a scholar, a teacher. And I wanted to speak of things I will not be able to do.

George Steiner

#7. God is telling an amazing, glorious, epic story. We have to decide if we will trust Him with it ...

Steven Curtis Chapman

#8. Darwin matters because evolution matters. Evolution matters because science matters. Science matters because it is the preeminent story of our age, an epic saga about who we are, where we came from and where we are going.

Michael Shermer

#9. Your life is meant to be an epic story. How you think, perform and live today is part of that script.

Robin Sharma

#10. Humans enter this world and awaken to a simple truth: We must find our story with this great epic of being.

Brian Swimme

#11. Sickness is the result not only of our acts, but out thoughts also.

Mahatma Gandhi

#12. I really had little interest in becoming famous. When I write my book, it will be my guide to avoid becoming a rock star.

Edgar Winter

#13. Jesus wastes none of our stories, even our tales of woe. He transforms them into epic adventures where we dare to face our past for the sake of our present.

Mary E. DeMuth

#14. 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.

Donald Miller

#15. In many ways my life has been rather like a record of the lost and found. Perhaps all lives are like that.

Lucy Foley

#16. Now think of it this way: which do you think would be better for Dottie, havin' ten thousand dollars so maybe she could go to that Amazon school, or havin' a beat-up, old, ugly, naggy, alcoholic

Tracy Letts

#17. Some people's personalities are so compelling that they command attention.

Laura Linney

#18. Nobody wants to go through divorce, especially when there's young children involved.

Lindsay Davenport

#19. We can either choose to cling to starring roles in the little-bitty stories of us or opt to exchange our fleeting moment in the spotlight for a supporting role in the eternally beautiful epic that is the Story of God. I

Louie Giglio

#20. No enemy bomber can reach the Ruhr. If one reaches the Ruhr, my name is not Goering. You may call me Meyer.

Hermann Goring

#21. The epic implications of being human end in more than this: We start our lives as if they were momentous stories, with a beginning, a middle and an appropriate end, only to find that they are mostly middles.

Anatole Broyard

#22. It vexes me greatly that having to earn my living has forced me to interrupt the work and to attend to small matters.

Leonardo Da Vinci

#23. This reminded him of Alvis Bender's contention that stories were like nations - Italy, a great epic poem, Britain, a thick novel, America, a brash motion picture in technicolor ...

Jess Walter

#24. Sometimes I wait for you at the exact edge of the jetty where we left each other. Sometimes I disappear into an unconscious hole and lie there silted up in stories having nothing to do with the vigorous immediacy of our epic.

Helene Cixous

#25. The best way to get over one man is to go down on another.

Chloe Thurlow

#26. It is in times of superlative hardship that individuals live their epic adventures, stories that thrill, fascinate, inspire, and illuminate.

Laura Hillenbrand

#27. It is important to tell good stories. You can tell stories even if they are not huge, epic, and wonderful. You can still take the responsibility for being a scribe of your tribe.

Ajay Naidu