"Every book that anyone sets out on is……" — Wallace Stegner
"Every book that anyone sets out on is a voyage of discovery that may discover nothing. Any voyager may be lost at sea, like John Cabot. Nobody can teach the geography of the undiscovered. All he can do is encourge the will to explore, plus impress upon the inexperienced a few of the dos and don'ts of voyaging."
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108 Quotes by Wallace Stegner
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Water is the true wealth in a dry land.
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Talent can't be taught, but it can be awakened.
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Young writers should be encouraged to write, and discouraged from thinking they are writers.
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No life goes past so swiftly as an eventless one, no clock spins like a clock whose days are all…
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There must be some other possibility than death or lifelong penance ... some meeting, some intersection of lines; and some…
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This early piece of the morning is mine.
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There is nothing like a doorbell to precipitate the potential into the kinetic.
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