All Wallace Stegner Quotes
- ... I was reminded of a remark of Willa Cather's, that you can't paint sunlight, you can only paint what it does with shadows on… Advising
- I am terribly glad to be alive; and when I have wit enough to think about it, terribly proud to be a man and an… Alive
- I consider the integrity of the material to be of greater value than any message I might want to get across. Across
- To try to save for everyone, for the hostile and independent as well as the committed, some of the health that flows down across the… Across
- I balked at nothing, I was above nothing. Everything had something to teach me. Balked
- Homesickness is a great teacher. It taught me, during an endless rainy fall, that I came from the arid lands, and like where I came… Air
- One means of sanity is to retain a hold on the natural world, ... Americans still have that chance, more than many peoples. Americans
- No place is a place until it has found its poet. Found
- Some are born in their place, some find it, some realize after long searching that the place they left is the one they have been… Been
- I may not know who I am, but I know where I am from. From
- A teacher enlarges people in all sorts of ways besides just his subject matter. All
- Most things break, including hearts. The lessons of life amount not to wisdom, but to scar tissue and callus. Amount
- Home is a notion that only nations of the homeless fully appreciate and only the uprooted comprehend. Appreciate
- Something will have gone out of us as a people if we ever let the remaining wilderness be destroyed ... We simply need that wild… Available
- There it was, there it is, the place where during the best time of our lives friendship had its home and happiness its headquarters. Best
- It should not be denied... that being footloose has always exhilarated us. It is associated in our minds with escape from history and oppression and… Absolute
- No one who has studied Western history can cling to the belief that the Nazis invented genocide. Belief
- it is an easy mistake to think that non-talkers are non-feelers. Easy
- Do we respond only to people who seem to find us interesting? Find
- A writer is an organism that will go on writing even after its heart has been cut out. Been
- Creation is a knack which is empowered by practice, and like almost any skill, it is lost if you don't practice it. Any
- Pleasant things to hear, though hearing them from him embarrasses me. I soak up the praise but feel obliged to disparage the gift. I believe… Believe
- You can plan all you want to. You can lie in your morning bed and fill whole notebooks with schemes and intentions. But within a… Afternoon
- Towns are like people. Old ones often have character, the new ones are interchangeable. Character
- If there is such a thing as being conditioned by climate and geography, and I think there is, it is the West that has conditioned… Anthropological