Quotes About Saga

The higher Greek poetry did not make up fictitious plots; its business was to express the heroic saga, the myths.

I was 12 and read my first romance novel; it was a sweeping desert saga, and I got to the end of it and was like, 'I want to go back and start all over again!' That emotional response to the book and getting to the end of a story you love is what inspires me to write the next book.

Thursday, June 17, 997

Istoria nu are niciodat? sfâr?it.

Since Divine is dead, the poet may sing her, may tell her legend, the Saga, the annals of Divine. The Divine Saga should be danced, mimed, with subtle directions. Since it is impossible to make a ballet of it, I am forced to use words that are weighed down with precise ideas, but I shall try to lighten them with expressions that are empty, hollow and invisible.

David Dary, in Cowboy Culture: A Saga of Five Centuries

Some evenings I have the impression that Grandpapa Noirtier patrols our corridors in a century-old wheelchair sadly in need of a drop of oil. To foil the decrees of fate, I am now planning a vast saga in which the key witness is not a paralytic but a runner. You never know. Perhaps it will work.

For all the days of our lives," we finished and I felt a little like a character in one of my grandma's soap operas...

The 'Mahabharata' is a more complex and longer saga than the 'Ramayana,' which is like a fairy tale. It's much lighter and more fun, and at its heart, there's a cracking love story.

Legends had been written about less.

'Avengers 3' has a beginning, middle, and a very definitive end, and 'Avengers 4' does the same.

With 'Vikings,' I had the task of making these people interesting and, to a point, sympathetic.

The history of science is the saga of nature defying common sense.

I actually imagined 'Thunderbolts' as a straight-up comedy book in a lot of ways, like a very dark comedy book, whereas 'Red Lanterns' is more of a cosmic saga that has some jokes every once in a while.

Also instructive for anyone – Jew or non-Jews – looking to succeed in the modern world is the entire saga of Jewish history that has been discussed throughout this book. It shows how perseverance in the face of adversity can pay off in the long term.

The true genre of the life is neither hagiography nor saga, but tragedy.

I love those books like 'Gone with the Wind,' the huge, sweeping family sagas.

That's the problem with soaps, of course. The stories never end. They can go on and on and on.

Without a good story, a franchise won't work.

Fafhrd, his back to a great oak, had his broadsword out and was holding off two of Rannarsh's henchmen, who were attacking with their shorter weapons. It was a tight spot and the Northerner realized it. He knew that ancient sagas told of heroes who could best four or more men at swordplay. He also knew that such sagas were lies, providing that the hero's opponents were reasonably competent.

Reading Edmund Morris's 'Colonel Roosevelt' is a rewarding journey, as it must also have been for its author, who concludes his three-volume saga begun in 1980 with publication of 'The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt.'

I'd wanted to say something epic and honest. But epics are rarely honest, and honesty should never be epic.

So we've written a saga," he said. "The Saga of Hal and the Heron Brotherband." "Oh Gorlog help us," Hal muttered.

There are three things I look for in a story - it has to be a thriller; I cannot see myself writing literary fiction or a saga! There has to be a historical connection; otherwise, the adrenalin will not flow. And I will try to bridge the gap between 'Rozabal' and 'Chanakya'.