A Quote by Ernest Hemingway

All bad writers are in love with the epic.

Ernest Hemingway

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Bad Epic Love Writers

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Ernest Hemingway
American - Novelist
July 21, 1899 - July 2, 1961

I think it is our job, as writers, to be epic. Epic and tiny at the same time. If you're going to be a fiction writer, why not take on something that means something. In doing this, you must understand that within that epic structure it is the tiny story that is possibly more important.

Colum McCann

Poets seem to write more easily about love than prose writers. For a start, they own that flexible ‘I’…. Then again, poets seem able to turn bad love – selfish, shitty love – into good love poetry. Prose writers lack this power of admirable, dishonest transformation. We can only turn bad love into prose about bad love. So we are envious (and slightly distrustful) when poets talk to us of love.

Julian Barnes

There are good writers and bad writers. It's hard to find writers who really speak to you, but the work is out there.

Colson Whitehead

I'm struggling with what is epic. People decided I was epic - if by epic, do you mean a big, heavy book? 'David Copperfield' is a big book - is it epic? Amount of time covered, length, drama, or story - that's the real appeal - if the story is long you have a better chance of becoming more connected.

Patrick Rothfuss

I can't lie and say there are no bad writers. Sorry, but there are lots of bad writers.

Stephen King

To make three films out of one shortish book, they have to turn it into an epic, just as 'Lord of the Rings' is an epic. But 'The Hobbit' isn't an epic: its tone is intimate and personal, and although it's full of adventures and excitement, they're on a different scale to those of the bigger book.

John Lanchester

Bad writers have influences. Good writers steal.

S.M. Stirling

That 'writers write' is meant to be self-evident. People like to say it. I find it is hardly ever true. Writers drink. Writers rant. Writers phone. Writers sleep. I have met very few writers who write at all.

Renata Adler

The epic disappeared along with the age of personal heroism; there can be no epic with artillery.

Ernest Renan

The true evolutionary epic, retold as poetry, is as intrinsically ennobling as any religious epic.

E. O. Wilson

The lesson was an Absa Cape Epic can go all directions: to the good and to the bad.

Nino Schurter

I like the idea of building this wandering, epic narrative in a form that people don't expect epic narratives to appear.

Lucas Neff

Epic will manually curate the Epic Games storefront rather than relying on algorithms or paid ads.

Tim Sweeney

Epic's Support-A-Creator program was launched as a one-time event, but it's now permanent and is available to all creators and all developers on the Epic Games store.

Tim Sweeney

I was talking to different labels: Columbia, RCA , Epic. I decided not to sign with Epic even after L.A. Reid offered me a crazy deal.