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Story Quotes by Rebecca Solnit
- The bigness of the world is redemption. Despair compresses you into a small space, and a depression is literally a hollow in the ground. To…
- [In mountaineering, if] we look for private experience rather than public history, even getting to the top becomes an optional narrative rather than the main…
- Every woman who appears wrestles with the forces that would have her disappear. She struggles with the forces that would tell her story for her,…
- Beauty is often spoken of as though it only stirs lust or admiration, but the most beautiful people are so in a way that makes…
- Stories are compasses and architecture, we navigate by them, we build our sanctuaries and our prisons out of them, and to be without a story…
- The present rearranges the past. We never tell the story whole because a life isn't a story; it's a whole Milky Way of events and…
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- I believe in anything that will engage the audience and make the story more effective. — J. J. Abrams
- For whatever reason, maybe it's because of my story, but people associate Livestrong with exercise and physical fitness, health and lifestyle choices… — Lance Armstrong
- In fact, I thought that Christianity was very a good and a very valuable thing for us. But after a while, I… — Chinua Achebe
- Once a novel gets going and I know it is viable, I don't then worry about plot or themes. These things will… — Chinua Achebe
- The most extraordinary thing about trying to piece together the missing links in the evolutionary story is that when you do find… — David Attenborough
- Once you allow yourself to identify with the people in a story, then you might begin to see yourself in that story… — Chinua Achebe
- People from different parts of the world can respond to the same story if it says something to them about their own… — Chinua Achebe
- You will always have partial points of view, and you'll always have the story behind the story that hasn't come out yet.… — Margaret Atwood
- Men have had every advantage of us in telling their own story. Education has been theirs in so much higher a degree;… — Jane Austen
- Those of us who can remember our childhoods will recall how ardently we relished the moment of the bedtime story, when our… — Paul Auster
- We grow older, but we do not change. We become more sophisticated, but at bottom we continue to resemble our young selves,… — Paul Auster
- Comedy, drama, Westerns, sci-fi... it's all fine if the story's compelling and the character is interesting to me. I do like action… — Jensen Ackles