Wright Morris Quotes

13 quotes in 220 categories

• Cats don't belong to people. They belong to places.
• Writing has made me rich-not in money but in a couple hundred characters out there, whose pursuits and anguish and triumphs I've shared. I am…
• Everyone in California is from somewhere else.
• The imagination made us human, but being human, becoming more human, is a greater burden than we imagined. We have no choice but to imagine…
• There's little to see, but things leave an impression. It's a matter of time and repetition. As something old wears thin or out, something new…
• The man who comes to writing late, but is in essence a writer, may sometimes gain as much as he has lost: his experience of…
• The man who walks alone is soon trailed by the F.B.I.
• When writing is good, everything is symbolic, but symbolic writing is seldom good.
• We make to ourselves pictures of facts. The picture is a model of reality
• We're in the world of communications more and more, tough we're in communication less and less.
• Writes have an island, a center of refuge, within themselves. It is the mind's anchorage, the soul's Great Good Place.
• After many months of writing, it occured to me that it might be possible to photograph, in the flesh, what I was attempting to capture…
• The past is useless. That explains why it is past.

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