Wallace Stegner Trying Quotations

Are you a reader? If you aren't a reader, you might as well forget trying to be a writer.

To try to save for everyone, for the hostile and independent as well as the committed, some of the health that flows down across the green ridges from the skyline, and some of the beauty and spirit that are still available to any resident of the valley who has a moment and the wit to lift up his eyes unto the hills.