Roland Smith famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

A partner can encourage you, maybe even stop you from falling, but they can't get you to the top. That's entirely up to you.
-- Roland Smith

#Fall #Up To You #Partners
You can never tell you the mountain will allow and who it will not.
-- Roland Smith

#Mountain
When you do your research write down whatever interests you. Whatever stimulates your imagination. Whatever seems important. A story is built like a stone wall. Not all the stones will fit. Some will have to be discarded. Some broken and reshaped. When you finish the wall it may not look exactly like the wall you envisioned, but it will keep the livestock in and the predators out. (pg. 144)
-- Roland Smith

#Wall #Writing #Imagination
...what makes a story unique is not necessarily the information in the story but what the writer chooses to put in or leave out.(pg. 146-147)
-- Roland Smith

#Unique #Stories #Information
For a climber, saying that you are stopping by Everest is like saying that you are stopping by to see God.
-- Roland Smith

#Stopping #Mountain Climbing #Everest
You don't have to be alone to feel alone.
-- Roland Smith

#Feels
The only thing you'll find on the summit of Mount Everest is a divine view. The things that really matter lie far below.
-- Roland Smith

#Lying #Views #Matter
a good writer should draw the reader in by starting in the middle of the story with a hook, then go back and fill in what happened before the hook. Once you have the reader hooked, you can write whatever you want as you slowly reel them in.
-- Roland Smith

#Writing #Want #Hook
My heavenly citizenship makes the whole world a foreign mission field.
-- Roland Smith

#World #Fields #Citizenship
Bluetooth earpieces are so geeky," Dan Cahill said. "But they free up your hands for surfing the web, stealing priceless jewels, and eating pastry," Atticus said, taking a huge bite out of an apple strudel. "And picking your nose," Dan added, which caused Atticus to blow a mouthful of strudel all over the seat in front of them occupied by Dan's sister, Amy, who was trying to sleep
-- Roland Smith

#Sleep #Blow #Hands
Studying elephants is like going back into prehistoric times. In size, elephants are the closest thigns we have to dinosaurs. There are days when I feel as though there is nothing we can do for elephants - I feel that the only good I am doing is recording the extinction of one of the most magnificent animals that ever walked the earth.
-- Roland Smith

#Animal #Elephants #Earth
Dan," she said. "I'm worried about him. It's not right that a thirteen-year-old knows as much as he does bout stealing things." " You're right," Jake said. "He should have been at least sixteen like you before he became part of an international crime ring.
-- Roland Smith

#Stealing Things #Should Have #Years
This is Simba," Nicole said, pointing to the lion. "Is he dangerous?" Asked Chase. "Not really. He mauled a trainer, but nothing much.
-- Roland Smith

#Lions #Said #Nicole

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