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Letter "E" » epic
«There were epochs in the history of the humanity in which the writer was a sacred person. He wrote the sacred books, universal books, the codes, the epic, the oracles. Sentences inscribed on the walls of the crypts; examples in the portals of the temples. But in those times the writer was not an individual alone; he was the people.»
«An epic is the easiest kind of picture to make badly.»
«I am all for titillating trivialities. I am all for the epic touch. I could almost say that everything in Time should be either titillating or epic or starkly, supercurtly factual.»
Author: Henry R. Luce
(Editor, Publisher)
| Keywords:
epic, epics, factual, titillate, titillating, trivialities, triviality
«Cut quarrels out of literature, and you will have very little history or drama or fiction or epic poetry left»
«The art of storytelling is reaching its end because the epic side of truth, wisdom, is dying out.»
«In unsettled times like these, when world cultures, countries and religions are facing off in violent confrontations, we could benefit from the reminder that storytelling is common to all civilizations. Whether in the form of a sprawling epic or a pointed ballad, the story is our most ancient method of making sense out of experience and of preserving the past.»
«Six billion of us walking the planet, six billion smaller worlds on the bigger one. Shoe salesmen and short-order cooks who look boring from the outside - some have weirder lives than you. Six billion stories, every one an epic, full of tragedy and triumph, good and evil, despair and hope. You and me - we aren't so special, bro.»
Author: Dean Koontz
| Keywords:
billion, boring, cooks, epic, epics, good story, in short order, salesmen, shoe, short order, short stories, short story, smaller, stories, The short story, weirder, worlds
«Feminine passion is to masculine as an epic is to an epigram»
Author: Karl Kraus
(Critic, Journalist, Playwright, Poet)
| About:
Passion
| Keywords:
epic, epics, epigram, feminine, masculine
«Eschew the monumental. Shun the Epic. All the guys who can paint great big pictures can paint great small ones.»
Author: Ernest Hemingway
| Keywords:
Big Picture, epic, epics, eschew, eschewed, guys, monumental, paint, paint a picture, pictures, shun, shunned, shunning, The Big Picture
«There is the happiness which comes from creative effort. The joy of dreaming, creating, building, whether in painting a picture, writing an epic, singing a song, composing a symphony, devising new invention, creating a vast industry.»
Author: Henry Miller
(Author, Writer)
| Keywords:
composing, creating, Creative Writing, devises, devising, dreaming, epic, epics, industry, invention, Joy of, picture writing, singing, symphonies, symphony
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