Wright Morris famous quotes

03-25-2025

The man who comes to writing late, but is in essence a writer, may sometimes gain as much as he has lost: his experience of life has given him a subject, he is spared the youthful writer's self-torment and soul-searching.
-- Wright Morris

#Writing #Men #Self
The past is useless. That explains why it is past.
-- Wright Morris

#Past #History #Useless
As the style of Faulkner grew out of his rage--out of the impotence of his rage--the style of Hemingway grew out of the depth andnuance of his disenchantment.
-- Wright Morris

#Style #Depth #Rage
Everyone in California is from somewhere else.
-- Wright Morris

#California
After many months of writing, it occured to me that it might be possible to photograph, in the flesh, what I was attempting to capture in words. I bought a Rolleiflex camera and began to take pictures of objects or structures that were used and abused by human hands
-- Wright Morris

#Writing #Hands #Flesh
Writes have an island, a center of refuge, within themselves. It is the mind's anchorage, the soul's Great Good Place.
-- Wright Morris

#Writing #Islands #Soul
We're in the world of communications more and more, tough we're in communication less and less.
-- Wright Morris

#Communication #World #Tough
We make to ourselves pictures of facts. The picture is a model of reality
-- Wright Morris

#Reality #Facts #Models
When writing is good, everything is symbolic, but symbolic writing is seldom good.
-- Wright Morris

#Writing #Symbolic
Cats don't belong to people. They belong to places.
-- Wright Morris

#Cat #People
Writing has made me rich-not in money but in a couple hundred characters out there, whose pursuits and anguish and triumphs I've shared. I am unspeakably grateful at the life I have come to lead.
-- Wright Morris

#Couple #Grateful #Character
There's little to see, but things leave an impression. It's a matter of time and repetition. As something old wears thin or out, something new wears in. The handle on the pump, the crank on the churn, the dipper floating in the bucket, the latch on the screen, the door on the privy, the fender on the stove, the knees of the pants and the seat of the chair, the handle of the brush and the lid to the pot exist in time but outside taste; they wear in more than they wear out. It can't be helped. It's neither good nor bad. It's the nature of life.
-- Wright Morris

#Doors #Buckets #Floating
The imagination made us human, but being human, becoming more human, is a greater burden than we imagined. We have no choice but to imagine ourselves more human than we are.
-- Wright Morris

#Imagination #Choices #Becoming
The man who walks alone is soon trailed by the F.B.I.
-- Wright Morris

#Men #He Man #Walks

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