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
blood grandparent connections
I am impressed by how much of my grandparent's life depended on continuities, contacts, connections, friendships, and blood relationships.
integrity want might
I consider the integrity of the material to be of greater value than any message I might want to get across.
intimate reader meetings
The meeting of writer and reader is an intimate act, and it properly takes place in private.
national-parks use parks
That is all the National Parks are about. Use, but do no harm.
inspirational weakness retiring
You can't retire to weakness -- you've got to learn to control strength.
judging prophet preacher
Are writers reporters, prophets, crazies, entertainers, preachers, judges, what?
cutting years relaxation
How much wilderness do the wilderness-lovers want? ask those who would mine and dig and cut and dam in such sanctuary spots as these. The answer is easy: Enough so that there will be in the years ahead a little relief, a little quiet, a little relaxation, for any of our increasing millions who need and want it.
writing materials ifs
Any life will provide the material for writing, if it is attended to.
memories mind tools
By his very profession, a serious fiction writer is a vendor of the sensuous particulars of life, a perceiver and handler of things. His most valuable tools are his sense and his memory; what happens in his mind is primarily pictures.
sorrow
I shall be richer all my life for this sorrow
There is nothing like a doorbell to precipitate the potential into the kinetic.
writing heart cutting
A writer is an organism that will go on writing even after its heart has been cut out.
writing fiction peculiar
It is almost impossible to write fiction about the Mormons, for the reason that Mormon institutions and Mormon society are so peculiar that they call for constant explanation.
littles values
To have so little, and it of so little value, was to be quaintly free.