It was epic.

I like lyric better than epic.

(Laughter)

literally wave stead.

We met, and we talked, And it was epic, but...

First, you have your epic heroes.

But, heroes come in all shapes and sizes, depending on what needs to be dealt with.

He prefers poetry to fiction.

There's the road stretching into infinity, bordered with lacy mists, favored by sentimental poets.

I met a novelist and a poet.

She is not a poet but a novelist.

He is a novelist and poet.

He is a poet and novelist.

He is not a poet but a novelist.

Not with much success.

I prefer poetry to novels.

She writes essays in addition to novels and poetry.

But no one has so far succeeded... in singing an epic of peace.

D.H. Lawrence is a novelist and poet.

He is not so much a poet as a novelist.

We invited a novelist and poet to the party.

I read not only his novels but also his poems.

He is not so much a novelist as a poet.

I'll tell you what's wrong with you.

In his old age, he has one more monster to face, one more threat that he must keep from his people, a dragon.

Fact is stranger than fiction.

The poet and novelist were both present at the meeting.

Many cultures, like the Acadians and the Syrians, adapted this Sumerian invention to create their own writing systems.

This novel is difficult to understand.

(Louisiana channel) (Jonathan Safran Foer novels have a lot to learn from poetry)

I want to leave you with a poem by Yusef Komunyakaa that speaks to transformation.

And come to the lyrical part, then ...

A novel that is its own synopsis, just an expanded version of its synopsis, comes awfully close to television actually.

People live for love. They kill for love. They die for love.

Stories.

My novel?

Graphic novels.

You know, the folk tales of Mahabharata and Ramayana, the two holy books, the epics that everything comes out of in India, they say.

This novel is much longer than that.

Here's Margaret Atwood, Cat's Eye.

The novelist wrote several romances.

I like Christie's novels better than Dickens's.

I'm a storyteller.

And when I say, just a story,

I understand you're writing a novel.