Academia Quote by Robert Appelbaum

“But those were only the headlines. The more important stories lay deep inside... p 292”

— Rachel Simon

“But a violent act is an epicenter; it shakes everyone within reach and creates other stories, cracks open the earth and reveals buried secrets.…

— Sarah Perry

“There are survivors of disasters whose accounts never begin with the tornado warning or the captain announcing engine failure, but always much earlier in…

— Emma Cline

“I read the stories I've been told in my own way and make a narrative of them. Narrative is a chain of links, and…

— Siri Hustvedt

“Stories trace their roots to impassioned human interactions with the world. I always sense a storyline as an emotional yearning embedded in a deep…

— Kilroy J. Oldster

“confronted with sudden disaster we all focus on how unremarkable the circumstances were in which the unthinkable occurred, the clear blue sky from which…

— Joan Didion

The stories I write are often literal to events that have happened or observations that I've made, and sometimes they're fantastical.

— Mark Mothersbaugh

“We should not delude ourselves into thinking that our historical narratives, as commonly constructed, are anything more than retrofits.”

— Niall Ferguson

“The idea that traumatic residues—or unresolved stories—can be inherited is groundbreaking.”

— Sharon Salzberg

“The calamities we experience here are only temporary phenomena. Each disaster reminds us that a disaster-free eternity”

— David Jeremiah

“Disasters have a way of making us stronger in the broken places. ”

— James Lee Witt

“Some ideas are like terrible storms; like a nightmare, they haunt a country or an epoch and destroy everything there!”

— Mehmet Murat ildan