Walks Quotes by Wright Morris

Everyone in California is from somewhere else.

— Wright Morris

[We] make images to see clearly: then we see clearly what we have made.

— Wright Morris

We're in the world of communications more and more, tough we're in communication less and less.

— Wright Morris

The photograph, after all, is just a photograph. Words will determine its meaning and status.

— Wright Morris

I prefer a taken to a made photograph.

— Wright Morris

The past is useless. That explains why it is past.

— Wright Morris

However much [photographs] may lie, they do so with the raw materials of truth.

— Wright Morris

The imagination made us human, but being human, becoming more human, is a greater burden than we imagined. We have no choice but to…

— Wright Morris

In the blur of the photograph, time leaves its gleaming, snail-like track.

— Wright Morris

As the style of Faulkner grew out of his rage--out of the impotence of his rage--the style of Hemingway grew out of the depth…

— Wright Morris

“Life, raw life, the kind we lead every day, whether it leads us into the past or the future, has the curious property of…

— Wright Morris

The man who comes to writing late, but is in essence a writer, may sometimes gain as much as he has lost: his experience…

— Wright Morris