Fiction Quote by Randall Munroe

Fiction either moves mountains or it's boring; it moves mountains or it sits on its ass.

— David Foster

If critics of 'readable fiction' want literature to change the ways people dream, they need first to come down from the mountain and speak…

— Graham Joyce

The mountains themselves call us into greater stories.

— Donald Miller

I can't tell people to love mountains. They have to find their own way.

— Reinhold Messner

“Mountains seem to answer an increasing imaginative need in the West. More and more people are discovering a desire for them, and a powerful…

— Robert MacFarlane

We have to believe that every person counts, counts as a creative force that can move mountains.

— May Sarton

“All mountain landscapes hold stories: the ones we read, the ones we dream, and the ones we create. -from the Editor's Note, The Alpinist…

— Michael Kennedy

Mountains have the power to call us into their realms and there, left forever, are our friends whose great souls were longing for the…

— Anatoli Boukreev

I have a low opinion of books; they are but piles of stones set up to show coming travelers where other minds have been,…

— John Muir

People with weak faith talk about their mountains until they grow out of proportion. People with deep faith talk to their mountains until they…

— Albert Kang

“The tops of mountains are among the unfinished parts of the globe, whither it is a slight insult to the gods to climb and…

— Henry David Thoreau

I've loved mountains since I was a girl, and when I discovered mountaineering fiction after college, I was hooked.

— Sabaa Tahir