The Westerner is less a person than a continuing adaptation. The West is less a place than a process. — Wallace Stegner Copy Share Image
“Under the rough and ridiculous circumstances of life in the Rocky Mountains there was something exciting and vital, full of rude poetry:… — 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
If there is such a thing as being conditioned by climate and geography, and I think there is, it is the West… — Wallace Stegner Copy Share Image
“It is not an unusual life curve for Westerners - to live i n and be shaped by the bigness, sparseness, space… — Wallace Stegner Copy Share Image
I was shaped by the west and have lived most of my life in it, and nothing would gratify me more than… — Wallace Stegner Copy Share Image
One cannot be pessimistic about the West. This is the native home of hope. When it fully learns that cooperation, not rugged… — 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
