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
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.
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.
heart cutting animal
A political animal can be defined as a body that will go on circulating a petition even with its heart cut out.
interesting people seems
Do we respond only to people who seem to find us interesting?
world mark left
We were going to leave a mark on the world but instead the world left marks on us.
belief genocide nazi
No one who has studied Western history can cling to the belief that the Nazis invented genocide.
lying mean stories
Human lives seldom conform to the conventions of fiction. Chekhov says that it is in the beginnings and endings of stories that we are most tempted to lie. I know what he means, and I agree.
responsibility sisterhood people
But however you might rebel, there was no shedding them. They were your responsibility and there was no one to relieve you of them. They called you Sis. All your life people called you Sis, because that was what you were, or what you became - big sister, helpful sister, the one upon whom everyone depended, the one they all came to for everything from help with homework to a sliver under the fingernail.
writing want knows
We do not write what we know; we write what we want to find out.
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.
used turns
He used to tell me, 'Do what you like to do. It'll probably turn out to be what you do best.
beautiful games wife
In a way, it is beautiful to be young and hard up. With the right wife, and I had her, deprivation became a game.
teach
I balked at nothing, I was above nothing. Everything had something to teach me.
reason-why novelty digging
History is not the proper midden for digging up novelties. Perhaps that is one reason why a nation bent on novelty ignores it.