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
“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
“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
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
No one who has studied Western history can cling to the belief that the Nazis invented genocide. — 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
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
“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
“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
“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
“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
![“We have been cut off, the past has been ended and the family has broken up and the present is adrift in its wheelchair. ... That is no gap between the generations, that is a gulf. The elements have changed, there are whole new orders of magnitude and kind. [...] My grandparents had to live their…” quote by Wallace Stegner](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/845/wallace-stegner-1352_breakage_we-have-been-cut-off-the-past-has-been-e_1335439.jpg)
