No one is born
No one is born a writer; literacy is a peculiar mode of being, but I was all about stories from a very early age, before reading. Rebecca Solnit
Quotes for All
No one is born a writer; literacy is a peculiar mode of being, but I was all about stories from a very early age, before reading. Rebecca Solnit
I don’t think my work has to be loved by everyone, and it’s loved by enough people that I’m grateful and able to keep going. Rebecca Solnit
You don’t have to be a preacher to talk about what matters, and you don’t have to drop the pleasures of style Rebecca Solnit
I think that walking down the middle of the street with several thousand people who share your deepest beliefs is one of the best ways to take a walk. Rebecca Solnit
For me, before I learned how to read I was really interested in story and in landscape and nature. I decided to become a writer almost as soon as I learned to read. Rebecca Solnit
Growing up north of San Francisco, I immersed myself in the local landscape and in books about Native Americans, cowboys, and pioneers that seemed to ground me in it, but to pursue culture in those days meant being spun around until dizzy and then pushed east. Rebecca Solnit
I roam around a lot in my territory, but what I learn at one end inflects and opens up my understanding at the other. Rebecca Solnit
Anarchists believe that we can govern ourselves in the absence of coercive and centralized authority; the underlying premise about human nature (to use an infinitely problematized but necessary term here) is fundamentally positive. And the evidence that in disasters people are really pretty kind, generous, brave, resourceful and creative fed that. Rebecca Solnit
I think that fear of the mob, the expectation that people, particularly poor and nonwhite people become mobs almost automatically in the absence of coercive authority, is inculcated by the media, the movies, and politicians. Rebecca Solnit
I was not going to surrender to the status quo and corporate insistence that ordinary people have no power and influence. Rebecca Solnit