Quotes on Epic

For readers of color, and especially black readers, black girls, I just want them to feel seen. And not just seen - I want them to feel epic and know that they are epic.

The art of storytelling is reaching its end because the epic side of truth, wisdom, is dying out.

Passover takes place in the home rather than the synagogue and centers around an epic meal - the seder - so you remember Passover as storytelling, you remember it in food, and you remember it in the family.

Her reputation for reading a great deal hung about her like the cloudy envelope of a goddess in an epic.

Humanity is sitting on a time bomb. If the vast majority of the world's scientists are right, we have just ten years to avert a major catastrophe that could send our entire planet's climate system into a tail-spin of epic destruction involving extreme weather, floods, droughts, epidemics and killer heat waves beyond anything we have ever experienced - a catastrophe of our own making.

The salvation of a single soul is more important than the production or preservation of all the epics and tragedies in the world.

Substitute "damn" every time you're inclined to write "very"; your editor will delete it and the writing will be just as it should be.

Even if I knew that tomorrow the world would go to pieces, I would still plant my apple tree.

Drawing on my fine command of language, I said nothing.

His life has been lived, so far, within narrow limits and he is quite naïve about most kinds of experience; he fears it and yet is wildly eager for it. To reassure himself, he converts it into epic myth as fast as it happens. He is forever play-acting.

I have no taste for either poverty or honest labor, so writing is the only recourse left for me

The best thing to hold onto in life is each other.