Quotes by Wallace Stegner, Crossing to Safety

Explore a curated collection of 10 quotes by Wallace Stegner, Crossing to Safety. Discover timeless wisdom, insightful thoughts, and memorable words that have inspired readers around the world. Browse through the gallery below and click on any quote to read more.

Hard writing makes easy reading. — Wallace Stegner, Crossing to Safety
Grub Street turns out good things almost as often as Parnassus. For if a writer is hard up enough, if he’s far down enou — Wallace Stegner, Crossing to Safety
[Friendship] is a relationship that has no formal shape, there are no rules or obligations or bonds as in marriage or th — Wallace Stegner, Crossing to Safety
What ever happened to the passion we all had to improve ourselves, live up to our potential, leave a mark on the world? — Wallace Stegner, Crossing to Safety
If you could forget mortality... You could really believe that time is circular, and not linear and progressive as our c — Wallace Stegner, Crossing to Safety
A poet is somebody who has written a poem. — Wallace Stegner, Crossing to Safety
A poem isn't selfish. It speaks to people. — Wallace Stegner, Crossing to Safety
Sally has a smile I would accept as my last view on earth... — Wallace Stegner, Crossing to Safety
Survival, it is called. Often it is accidental, sometimes it is engineered by creatures or forces that we have no concep — Wallace Stegner, Crossing to Safety
Ambition is a path, not a destination, and it is essentially the same path for everybody. No matter what the goal is, th — Wallace Stegner, Crossing to Safety