Quotes by : Wallace Stegner

Creation is a knack which is empowered by practice, and like almost any skill, it is lost if you don't....

I never learned to say shit before a lady. I don't believe in progress in quite the way you seem to.....

To have so little, and it of so little value, was to be quaintly free.

I can't see that Danish episode as an adventure, or a crisis survived, or a serious quest for anything....

Salt is added to dried rose petals with the perfume and spices, when we store them away in covered jars,....

There was somewhere, if you knew where to find it, some place where money could be made like drawing....

Survival, it is called. Often it is accidental, sometimes it is engineered by creatures or forces that....

[I]t is dangerous for a bride to be apologetic about her husband.

It is not an unusual life curve for Westerners - to live i n and be shaped by the bigness, sparseness,....

There is some history that I want not to have happened. I resist the consequences of being Nemesis.