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
married make-out
You married me...but you didn't marry what you could make out of me.
running smell tree
A muddy little stream, a village grown unfamiliar with time and trees. I turn around and retrace my way up Main Street and park and have a Coke in the confectionery store. It is run by a Greek, as it used to be, but whether the same Greek or another I would not know. He does not recognize me, nor I him. Only the smell of his place is familiar, syrupy with old delights, as if the ghost of my first banana split had come close to breathe on me.
thinking should-have agendas
In fiction I think we should have no agenda but to tell the truth.
men air discovery
Fossil energy is the worst discovery man ever made, and his disruption of the carbon-oxygen cycle is the greatest of his triumphs over nature. Through thinner and thinner air we labor toward our last end, conquerors finally of even the earth chemistry that created us.
moving sides needs
It's easier to die than to move ... at least for the Other Side you don't need trunks.
character people challenges
We need wilderness preserved-as much of it as is still left, and as many kinds-because it was the challenge against which our character as a people was formed,
attention pay emotion
You achieve stature only by being good enough to deserve it, by forcing even the contemptuous and indifferent to pay attention, and to acknowledge that human relations and human emotions are of inexhaustible interest wherever they occur.
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.
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?