Quotes by : Wallace Stegner

I wonder if ever again Americans can have that experience of returning to a home place so intimately....

There must be some other possibility than death or lifelong penance ... some meeting, some intersection....

The perfect weather of Indian Summer lengthened and lingered, warm sunny days were followed by brisk....

You can't retire to weakness -- you've got to learn to control strength.

Most things break, including hearts. The lessons of life amount not towisdom, but to scar tissue and....

Home is a notion that only nations of the homeless fully appreciate and only the uprooted comprehend.....

If you could forget mortality... You could really believe that time is circular, and not linear and progressive....

Towns are like people. Old ones often have character, the new ones are interchangeable.

Walk openly, Marian used to say. Love even the threat and the pain, feel yourself fully alive, cast a....

Marian’s eyes absolutely blaze. To meet them is to have a shock of contact as if they were electrically....