A Quote by Jon Meacham
An epic subject requires a writer of epic skill and scope, and we have a perfect pairing in Cleopatra and Stacy Schiff. Absorbing and illuminating, this new biography will endure.
Related Quotes
What dazzles us in Stacy Schiff's Cleopatra are not the alluring mythologies about the evasive queen, but the astonishing if rare historical facts that Schiff has meticulously and lovingly excavated. Schiff offers not just Cleopatra's story but the story of an amazing era, one that has vanished but still affects us, questioning the way we look at myth, history, and ourselves.
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.
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.
If I thought there was any hope of turning 'World War Z' into a movie, I wouldn't have written it as a giant, epic, global story, because that requires a giant, epic, global budget.
Epic will manually curate the Epic Games storefront rather than relying on algorithms or paid ads.
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.
Stacy Schiff is that rare combination: a first-rate historian and a brilliant storyteller. Using a wide range of sources, she spins straw into gold, conjuring the world of Ptolemaic Egypt in full vibrant color, and returning the voice of one of the most powerful, fascinating, and maligned women in history. Cleopatra is impossible to put down.
The epic disappeared along with the age of personal heroism; there can be no epic with artillery.
The true evolutionary epic, retold as poetry, is as intrinsically ennobling as any religious epic.
I like the idea of building this wandering, epic narrative in a form that people don't expect epic narratives to appear.
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.
THE TESTAMENT OF TALL EAGLE is myth-making of epic scope.
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.
You mean you have to be epic already, for it to make you more epic?
There is a part of me that likes things that are epic, that's why I think a lot of my songs go to these soundscapes that are cinematic, because I really like the epic storytelling.
Never doubt my weaseling abilities, Shadowhunter, for they are epic and memorable in their scope.
Related Authors
Andre Leon Talley Quotes
American
Editor
Anna Wintour Quotes
English
Editor
Bari Weiss Quotes
American
Editor
Carine Roitfeld Quotes
French
Editor
Claire Saffitz Quotes
American
Editor
Denis Diderot Quotes
French
Editor
Diana Vreeland Quotes
American
Editor
George Horace Lorimer Quotes
American
Editor
George Jean Nathan Quotes
American
Editor
Heather Mac Donald Quotes
American
Editor
Joanna Coles Quotes
American
Editor
Kevin Kelly Quotes
American
Editor
Lewis H. Lapham Quotes
American
Editor
Susan L. Taylor Quotes
American
Editor
Thelma Schoonmaker Quotes
Algerian
Editor
Tina Brown Quotes
American
Editor