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
beautiful scene consequence
There is a sense in which we are all each other's consequences
country air organization
Thanks to the growing strength of environmental organizations, there will always be some back country to provide us with a touch of wonder and a breath of fresh air.
poet found
No place is a place until it has found its poet.
writing practice skills
Creation is a knack which is empowered by practice, and like almost any skill, it is lost if you don't practice it.
moving mountain desert
Faith can reclaim deserts as well as move mountains.
summer past rose
Salt is added to dried rose petals with the perfume and spices, when we store them away in covered jars, the summers of our past.
drinking fighting bird
It is somethingit can be everything-to have found a fellow bird with whom you can sit among the rafters while the drinking and boasting and reciting and fighting go on below.
married make-out
You married me...but you didn't marry what you could make out of me.
agreement civilization names
Civilizations grow by agreements and accomodations and accretions, not by repudiations. The rebels and the revolutionaries are only eddies, they keep the stream from getting stagnant but they get swept down and absorbed, they're a side issue. Quiet desperation is another name for the human condition. If revolutionaries would learn that they can't remodel society by day after tomorrow -- haven't the wisdom to and shouldn't be permitted to -- I'd have more respect for them ... Civilizations grow and change and decline -- they aren't remade.
national-parks use parks
That is all the National Parks are about. Use, but do no harm.
teaching writing thinking
Young writers should be encouraged to write, and discouraged from thinking they are writers.
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.
life errors trial-and-error
The life we all live is amateurish and accidental; it begins in accident and proceeds by trial and error toward dubious ends.
rugged-individualism chance scenery
Have a chance to create a society to match its scenery.