Wallace Stegner Quote

I grew up doubting the big-bonanza-just-over-the-next-rise notion because for years I watched my family chase it. I got pretty jaundiced on that subject. A little realism would have helped my family a good deal.


Paris Review (Summer 1990)


I grew up doubting the big-bonanza-just-over-the-next-rise notion because for years I watched my family chase it. I got pretty jaundiced on that...

I grew up doubting the big-bonanza-just-over-the-next-rise notion because for years I watched my family chase it. I got pretty jaundiced on that...

I grew up doubting the big-bonanza-just-over-the-next-rise notion because for years I watched my family chase it. I got pretty jaundiced on that...

I grew up doubting the big-bonanza-just-over-the-next-rise notion because for years I watched my family chase it. I got pretty jaundiced on that...