“For history is a pontoon bridge. Every man walks and works at its building end, and has come as far as he… — Wallace Stegner Copy Share Image
“What if I can't turn my head? I can look in any direction by turning my wheelchair, and I choose to look… — Wallace Stegner Copy Share Image
No one who has studied Western history can cling to the belief that the Nazis invented genocide. — Wallace Stegner Copy Share Image
History is not the proper midden for digging up novelties. Perhaps that is one reason why a nation bent on novelty ignores… — Wallace Stegner Copy Share Image
“I’m not writing a book of Western history,' I tell him. 'I’ve written enough history books to know this isn’t one. I’m… — Wallace Stegner Copy Share Image
No place is a place until things that have happened in it are remembered in history, ballads, yarns, legends, or monuments. Fictions… — Wallace Stegner Copy Share Image
“If Henry Adams, whom you knew slightly, could make a theory of history by applying the second law of thermodynamics to human… — Wallace Stegner Copy Share Image
“We have been cut off, the past has been ended and the family has broken up and the present is adrift in… — Wallace Stegner Copy Share Image
It should not be denied... that being footloose has always exhilarated us. It is associated in our minds with escape from history… — Wallace Stegner Copy Share Image
“In general the assumption of all of us, child or adult, was that this was a new country and that a new… — Wallace Stegner Copy Share Image
“There is some history that I want not to have happened. I resist the consequences of being Nemesis.” — Wallace Stegner Copy Share Image
“I wouldn't live in a colony like that, myself, for a thousand dollars an hour. I wouldn't want it next door. I'm… — Wallace Stegner Copy Share Image
“I have to blame myself for not finding any way of reaching him, but I can't feel that either Ruth or I had anything… — Wallace Stegner Copy Share Image
No life goes past so swiftly as an eventless one, no clock spins like a clock whose days are all alike. — Wallace Stegner Copy Share Image
“within yourself, you became a grave for her as you were a grave for Chet, and you carried your dead unquietly within you. —” — Wallace Stegner Copy Share Image
Towns are like people. Old ones often have character, the new ones are interchangeable. — Wallace Stegner Copy Share Image
By his very profession, a serious fiction writer is a vendor of the sensuous particulars of life, a perceiver and handler of things. His… — Wallace Stegner Copy Share Image
“The creative writer is compulsively concrete . . . . His fictional house should be haunted by ideas, not inhabited by them; they should… — Wallace Stegner Copy Share Image
You married me...but you didn't marry what you could make out of me. — Wallace Stegner Copy Share Image
I gave my heart to the mountains the minute I stood beside this river with its spray in my face and watched it thunder… — Wallace Stegner Copy Share Image
“Poetry ought to be a by-product of living, and you can't have a by-product unless you've got a product first .” — Wallace Stegner Copy Share Image
