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
Wallace Stegner quotes about
mistake judging way
We made plenty of mistakes, but we never tripped anybody to gain an advantage, or took illegal shortcuts when no judge was around. We have all jogged and panted it out the whole way.
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?
sorrow
I shall be richer all my life for this sorrow
civilization healthy west
I was shaped by the west and have lived most of my life in it, and nothing would gratify me more than to see it in all its subregions and subcultures both prosperous and environmentally healthy, with a civilization to match its scenery.
fossils
We are fossils in the making.
ideas america national-parks
If the national park is, as Lord Bryce suggested, the best idea America has ever had, wilderness preservation is the highest refinement of that idea,
intimate reader meetings
The meeting of writer and reader is an intimate act, and it properly takes place in private.
interesting people seems
Do we respond only to people who seem to find us interesting?
exercise forever balance
If you avoid the killer diseases and keep the degenerative ones under control with sensible diet and exercise and whatever chemotherapy you need to stay in balance, you can live nearly forever.
belief genocide nazi
No one who has studied Western history can cling to the belief that the Nazis invented genocide.
dog years want
Every time. You know why? I want to fail. I work like a dog for twenty years so I'll have the supreme pleasure of failing. Never knew anybody like that, did you? I'm very cunning. I plan it in advance. I fool myself right up to the last minute, and then the time comes and I know how cunningly I've been planning it all the time. I've been a failure all my life.
country sea half
After a day and a half or so the traveler will realize that crossing the continent by Interstate he gets to know the country about as well as a cable messenger knows the sea bottom.
roots long grows
Values, both those that we approve and those that we don't, have roots as deep as creosote rings, and live as long and grow as slowly