Quotes: Rebecca Solnit

"All stories are really fragments of one story."

–– Rebecca Solnit (b. 1961), American author 

Source: Rebecca Solnit. The Faraway Nearby. New York: Viking, 2013; p. 79. 

via: Commonplace Book 2013-2014, 2014, p. 77. 

Creativity quotes: Rūmī

"Don't be satisfied with stories, how things have gone with others. Unfold your own myth."

–– Jalāl ad-Dīn Muhammad Rūmī (1207-1273), Persian poet and Sufi mystic; interpretation by Coleman Barks (b. 1937), American poet