Wallace Stegner Quotes

“There are only two living American authors fully deserving of the Nobel Prize. One is Lewis Mumford. The other is Wallace Stegner, whose novels and essays provide us a comprehensive portrait of industrial society in all its glittering corruption and radiant evil.”
― Edward Abbey, Postcards from Ed: Dispatches and Salvos from an American Iconoclast

“maybe we were the diggers of literature”
― Wallace Stegner

“...love, not sin, costs us Eden. Love is a carrier of death - the only thing, in fact, that makes death significant.”
― Wallace Stegner, All the Little Live Things