Wallace Stegner Quotes
It is a lovely and terrible wilderness, such as wilderness as Christ and the prophets went out into; harshly and beautifully colored, broken and worn until its bones are exposed, its great sky without a smudge of taint from Technocracy, and in hidden corners and pockets under its cliffs the sudden poetry of springs.
Quotes to Explore
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I just can't get used to the idea of being somebody unreal in people's minds. I can't live my life like that. And it's just anathema to being a writer. It's not healthy.
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It was my mother's idea. Her feeling was that I didn't have the intelligence to pick a trade myself.
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I believe nobody is stronger than the state. So the state would be strong, and we have to work altogether to make the strength of the state.
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I hate competition.
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I really was about to pass out during my entire wedding. I just didn't know if I could marry anybody.
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I'm a Persian Jew, and we don't speak Hebrew.
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Winning a gold medal is not easy but I believed in myself, especially over the last four years.
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It is ingrained in all living creatures, first of all, to preserve their own safety, to guard against what is harmful, to strive for what is advantageous.
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Small debts are like small shot; they are rattling on every side, and can scarcely be escaped without a wound: great debts are like cannon; of loud noise, but little danger.
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Conscience is the perfect interpreter of life.
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I find it hard to focus looking forward. So I look backward.
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Some of my books sort of have a provocative take. Sometimes you find interesting things about characters that show they weren't necessarily the way people usually see them. It can make for lively conversations, but that's great. Spark a little controversy, get people to think about it. That's what it's all about.
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If the people don't want to come out to the ballpark, nobody's going to stop them.
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I do take this insane pleasure in world-building. I get the world in my head, but I have to make sure everyone else gets it.
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I could walk into anyone's home one time and draw a three-dimensional architectural plan of the inside of their home from memory, but I could not add up a column of numbers.
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I know what I'm having 'em put on my tombstone: 'I have nothing more to say'.
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How will the approach of the Singularity spread across the human world view?
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I know something quite sure. We'll never have peace with this Syrian regime. They'll never give us relief, and we'll never forget that.
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Sometimes a line enters your head, and you're so grateful for it. You go online to check to see if anyone wrote it before you. You must have stolen it.
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What I need in order to stay creative and centered is a certain amount of distance from the maddening crowd. You cease to be your best self if you're running too fast.
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What's great about musicals is their energy and go-for-brokeness - stopping the story to sing and dance. How can you not love that?
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I'm not Prince or Rivers Cuomo, who brags about having hundreds of great songs.
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I don't take the roles home with me. I don't work that way. I don't understand that; I mean, I really don't when I hear that.
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It is a lovely and terrible wilderness, such as wilderness as Christ and the prophets went out into; harshly and beautifully colored, broken and worn until its bones are exposed, its great sky without a smudge of taint from Technocracy, and in hidden corners and pockets under its cliffs the sudden poetry of springs.
