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…

— 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…

— Wright Morris

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

— Wright Morris

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

— Wright Morris

The man who walks alone is soon trailed by the F.B.I.

— Wright Morris

The vast number of photographers, feeding on anything visible, overgraze the landscape the way cattle overgraze their pasture.

— Wright Morris

There's little to see, but things leave an impression. It's a matter of time and repetition. As something old wears thin or…

— Wright Morris

Cats don't belong to people. They belong to places.

— Wright Morris

When writing is good, everything is symbolic, but symbolic writing is seldom good.

— Wright Morris

The camera eye is the one in the middle of our forehead, combining how we see with what there is to be…

— Wright Morris

After many months of writing, it occured to me that it might be possible to photograph, in the flesh, what I was…

— Wright Morris

We make to ourselves pictures of facts. The picture is a model of reality

— Wright Morris

Writes have an island, a center of refuge, within themselves. It is the mind's anchorage, the soul's Great Good Place.

— Wright Morris

Writing has made me rich-not in money but in a couple hundred characters out there, whose pursuits and anguish and triumphs I've…

— Wright Morris

Images proliferate. Am I wrong in being reminded of printing money in a period of wild inflation? Do we know what we…

— Wright Morris