Rebecca Solnit Quotes

The human world is made of stories, not people.

I'm an old storyteller. I tell the story. It's about the story.

Facts interest me less than the trailing smoke of stories.

People become the stories they hear and the stories they tell.

Storytelling isn't an Escher staircase.

I think that we need mythology. We need a bedrock of story and legend in order to live our lives coherently.

Stories build cultures by answering the big questions.

I love stories, I love myths, I love fairytales, I love Kafka.

Come then, and let us pass a leisure hour in storytelling, and our story shall be the education of our heroes.

Humans like stories. Humans need stories. Stories are good. Stories work. Story clarifies and captures the essence of the human spirit. Story, in all its forms—of life, of love, of knowledge—has traced the upward surge of mankind. And story, you mark my words, will be with the last human to draw breath.

The job of a storyteller is to tell stories, and I have concentrated on that obligation.

Maybe more than a teller, I am a story listener. I really enjoy listening to stories. I remember them and keep them in my mind. All of my films are a collection of small stories that have been told to me.

Stories--individual stories, family stories, national stories--are what stitch together the disparate elements of human existence into a coherent whole. We are story animals.

The human world is made of stories, not people. The people the stories use to tell themselves are not to be blamed

There's always a story. It's all stories, really. The sun coming up every day is a story. Everything's got a story in it. Change the story, change the world.

Fiction is Truth's elder sister. Obviously. No one in the world knew what truth was till some one had told a story.

For every once upon a time there must be a story to follow, because if a story doesn't, something else will, and it might not be as harmless as a story.

Humanity's legacy of stories and storytelling is the most precious we have. All wisdom is in our stories and songs. A story is how we construct our experiences. At the very simplest, it can be: 'He/she was born, lived, died.' Probably that is the template of our stories - a beginning, middle, and end. This structure is in our minds.

There is something in human beings that loves stories.

We are made of the stories we have heard and read all through our lives.

Humankind has been telling stories forever and will be telling stories forever.

To begin with, I want to tell a good story, a story that people will listen to and that they'll think this is true, even if it is a story that might be defined as - as myth or legend or even fanciful.

Combine two words, Myth and History. What do you get? Mystery.

Fable is more historical than fact, because fact tells us about one man and fable tells us about a million men.

Jack’s life had more to do with myth, legend, saga, and story than with political theory or political science.