Quotes by : Wallace Stegner

[Y]ou were too alert to the figurative possibilities of words not to see the phrase [angle of repose]....

That night she wrote a hasty sketch and showed it to Oliver. "It's all right," he said. "But I'd take....

I may not know who I am, but I know where I am from.

Ruth believes that boys are not found around stables because what they like is taking things apart and....

Wisdom. . .is knowing what you have to accept.

[The modern age] knows nothing about isolation and nothing about silence. In our quietest and loneliest....

I am terribly glad to be alive and when I have wit enough to think about it, terribly proud to be a man....

[T]hat old September feeling, left over from school days, of summer passing, vacation nearly done, obligations....

A poet is somebody who has written a poem.

[Friendship] is a relationship that has no formal shape, there are no rules or obligations or bonds as....