Rebecca Solnit Quotes about Writing

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Writing is saying to no one and to everyone the things it is not possible to say to someone.

Writing is saying to no one and to everyone the things it is not possible to say to someone.

Rebecca Solnit

Writing

Rebecca Solnit (2013). “The Faraway Nearby”, p.42, Granta Books

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, or write her out of the story ... The ability to tell your own story, in words or images, is already a victory, already a revolt.

Rebecca Solnit

Women, Struggle, Writing

"Men Explain Things to Me". Book by Rebecca Solnit, www.theguardian.com. May 20, 2014.

In her novel Regeneration, Pat Barker writes of a doctor who 'knew only too well how often the early stages of change or cure may mimic deterioration. Cut a chrysalis open, and you will find a rotting caterpillar. What you will never find is that mythical creature, half caterpillar, half butterfly, a fit emblem of the human soul, for those whose cast of mind leads them to seek such emblems. No, the process of transformation consists almost entirely of decay.

Rebecca Solnit

Nature, Writing, Butterfly

Rebecca Solnit (2010). “A Field Guide To Getting Lost”, p.91, Canongate Books

You write your books. You scatter your seeds. Rats might eat them, or they might rot. In California, some seeds lie dormant for decades because they only germinate after fire, and sometimes the burned landscape blooms most lavishly.

Rebecca Solnit

Lying, Book, Writing

Rebecca Solnit (2010). “Hope In The Dark”, p.94, Canongate Books

Language is like a road, it cannot be perceived all at once because it unfolds in time, whether heard or read. This narrative or temporal element has made writing and walking resemble each other.

Rebecca Solnit

Writing, Elements, Narrative

Rebecca Solnit (2001). “Wanderlust: A History of Walking”, p.203, Penguin

To write is to carve a new path through the terrain of the imagination, or to point out new features on a familiar route. To read is to travel through that terrain with the author as a guide-- a guide one might not always agree with or trust, but who can at least be counted on to take one somewhere.

Rebecca Solnit

Writing, Imagination, Might

Rebecca Solnit (2001). “Wanderlust: A History of Walking”, p.57, Penguin

There are infinite shades of grey. Writing often appears so black and white.

Rebecca Solnit

Writing, Black And White, Shade

I've been gratified to see over the twenty or so years of my writing life the West become less of a colony of the East; maybe new technologies and too much travel undermine the idea of provinciality.

Rebecca Solnit

Writing, Technology, Years

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Rebecca Solnit Quotes about Writing

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