"When writing is good, everything is symbolic, but……" — Wright Morris

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

— Wright Morris

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13 Quotes by Wright Morris

Wright Morris has 13 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

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…
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…
There's little to see, but things leave an impression. It's a matter of time and repetition. As something old wears…
The man who comes to writing late, but is in essence a writer, may sometimes gain as much as he…
The man who walks alone is soon trailed by the F.B.I.
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…
The past is useless. That explains why it is past.

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