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
“The light is nostalgic about mornings past and optimistic about mornings to come.” — Wallace Stegner Copy Share Image
Every action is an idea before it is an action, and perhaps a feeling before it is an idea, and every idea… — Wallace Stegner Copy Share Image
“He looks into his Dixie cup and looks back up as if surprised at what he found there. The future, maybe.” — Wallace Stegner Copy Share Image
Salt is added to dried rose petals with the perfume and spices, when we store them away in covered jars, the summers… — Wallace Stegner Copy Share Image
Expose a child to a particular environment at this susceptible time and he will perceive in the shapes of that environment until… — Wallace Stegner Copy Share Image
Every green natural place we save saves a fragment of our sanity and gives us a little more hope that we have… — Wallace Stegner Copy Share Image
“If you could forget mortality... You could really believe that time is circular, and not linear and progressive as our culture is… — Wallace Stegner Copy Share Image
“His clock was set on pioneer time. He met trains that had not yet arrived, he waited on platforms that hadn't yet… — Wallace Stegner Copy Share Image
I imagine you will always be pinched for money, for time, for a place to work. But I think you will do… — 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
“The sound of anything coming at you—a train, say, or the future —has a higher pitch than the sound of the same… — Wallace Stegner Copy Share Image
Youth hasn't got anything to do with chronological age. It's times of hope and happiness. — Wallace Stegner Copy Share Image
There it was, there it is, the place where during the best time of our lives friendship had its home and happiness… — Wallace Stegner Copy Share Image
You have to get over the color green; you have to quit associating beauty with gardens and lawns; you have to get… — Wallace Stegner Copy Share Image
“The air is so crisp it gives me a brief, delusive sense of health and youth. those I don't have but I… — Wallace Stegner Copy Share Image
A muddy little stream, a village grown unfamiliar with time and trees. I turn around and retrace my way up Main Street… — Wallace Stegner Copy Share Image
Every time. You know why? I want to fail. I work like a dog for twenty years so I'll have the supreme… — 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)
