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
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.
writing materials ifs
Any life will provide the material for writing, if it is attended to.
fossils
We are fossils in the making.
moving sides needs
It's easier to die than to move ... at least for the Other Side you don't need trunks.
blood grandparent connections
I am impressed by how much of my grandparent's life depended on continuities, contacts, connections, friendships, and blood relationships.
ideas feelings action
Every action is an idea before it is an action, and perhaps a feeling before it is an idea, and every idea rests upon other ideas that have preceded it in time.
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?
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.
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.
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.
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.