Wallace Stegner
Wallace Stegner
Wallace Earle Stegnerwas an American novelist, short story writer, environmentalist, and historian, often called "The Dean of Western Writers". He won the Pulitzer Prize in 1972 and the U.S. National Book Award in 1977...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionHistorian
Date of Birth18 February 1909
CountryUnited States of America
home appreciate notion
Home is a notion that only nations of the homeless fully appreciate and only the uprooted comprehend.
divorce home done
I wonder if ever again Americans can have that experience of returning to a home place so intimately known, profoundly felt, deeply loved, and absolutely submitted to? It is not quite true that you can't go home again. I have done it, coming back here. But it gets less likely. We have had too many divorces, we have consumed too much transportation, we have lived too shallowly in too many places.
notebook morning lying
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 single afternoon, within hours or minutes, everything you plan and everything you have fought to make yourself can be undone as a slug is undone when salt is poured on him. And right up to the moment when you find yourself dissolving into foam you can still believe you are doing fine.
evil-love evil paradise
wherever you find the greatest good, you will find the greatest evil, because evil loves paradise as much as good.
long locks matter
Largeness is a lifelong matter. You grow because you are not content not to. You are like a beaver that chews constantly because if it doesn't, it's teeth grow long and lock. You grow because you are a grower; you're large because you can't stand to be small.
giving green littles
Every green natural place we save saves a fragment of our sanity and gives us a little more hope that we have a future.
independent eye trying
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 green ridges from the skyline, and some of the beauty and spirit that are still available to any resident of the valley who has a moment and the wit to lift up his eyes unto the hills.
trying might forget
Are you a reader? If you aren't a reader, you might as well forget trying to be a writer.
taught crafts talent
Talent can't be taught, but it can be awakened.
broken-heart encouragement inspirational-life
Most things break, including hearts. The lessons of life amount not to wisdom, but to scar tissue and callus.
nature effort might
We are the only species which, when it chooses to do so, will go to great effort to save what it might destroy.
two hopeful brain
There must be some other possibility than death or lifelong penance ... some meeting, some intersection of lines; and some cowardly, hopeful geometer in my brain tells me it is the angle at which two lines prop each other up, the leaning-together from the vertical which produces the false arch. For lack of a keystone, the false arch may be as much as one can expect in this life. Only the very lucky discover the keystone.
essentials individualism belonging
American individualism, much celebrated and cherished, has developed without its essential corrective, which is belonging.
west adaptation process
The Westerner is less a person than a continuing adaptation. The West is less a place than a process.