“It’s only a question of whether you’re looking through a telescope or a microscope.“

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I don’t work on an epic scale, though my ambitions run more to epic proportions than I like to admit.

It’s a question of focus. I don’t really see on an epic scale, not in the way of Tolstoy and Morrison and García Márquez.