Epic Adventures Quotes

Great deeds give choice of many tales. Choose a slight tale, enrich it large, and then let wise men listen.

Romances I ne'er read like those I have seen.

I've read fantasy my whole life. Quite literally; my mom read me The Hobbit before I could read stuff to myself. So I love fantasy; that's what I read for fun, it's what I read professionally to keep abreast of what's in the genre - it's where my heart is.

The real Amazons were long believed to be purely imaginary. They were the mythical warrior women who were the archenemies of the ancient Greeks. Every Greek hero or champion, from Hercules to Theseus and Achilles, had to prove his mettle by fighting a powerful warrior queen.

I really love fantasy. I have to say it is my favourite genre to read and one of the genres I love the most to write.

To a degree, the Greek and Roman mythological heroes are just the first superheroes. They appeal to children for much the same reason. These gods and heroes may have powers, but they get angry and they do the wrong thing. They are human too.

I've always been a sci-fi/fantasy guy. My book reports in school, whenever you didn't have to do it on Shakespeare, I did it on, like, Piers Anthony and Raymond Feist.

I'm particularly fond of sci-fi and fantasy genres.

Legends were not only for the desperate. Legends were for the brave. (Soren)

Classical heroes are usually much larger than life. They're not quite human beings. They're somehow larger than human scale.

I'm a sci-fi guy. But I like fantasy too.

Fantasy is, at its best, the purest access to storytelling that we have. It universalizes a tale, it evokes wonder and timeless narrative power, it touches upon inner journeys, it illuminates our collective and individual pasts, throws a focus beam on the present day, and presages the dangers and promises of the future.

You have so many sources to draw on when you're a fantasy writer.

How can even the best novelist or playwright invent someone like Augustus Caesar or Catherine the Great, Galileo or Florence Nightingale? How can screenwriters create better action stories or human dramas than exist, thousand upon thousand, throughout the many centuries of recorded history?

She always did like tales of adventure-stories full of brightness and darkness. She could tell you the names of all King Arthur's knights, and she knew everything about Beowulf and Grendel, the ancient gods and the not-quite-so-ancient heroes. She liked pirate stories, too, but most of all she loved books that had at least a knight or a dragon or a fairy in them. She was always on the dragon's side by the way.

That's kind of the theme of Own the Night. It's about those nights that are so memorable you could live them forever.

I like fantasy. I like worlds where sometimes you need the special effects to make it come alive, but it's not so fun acting it.

There are fun nights, there are crazy nights, and then there are those nights that make men legends.

Mythological shows take a lot from you.