No place is a place until things that have happened in it are remember…

Wallace Stegner
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No place is a place until things that have happened in it are remembered in history, ballads, yarns, legends, or monuments. Fictions serve as well as facts. ✨ Wallace Earle Stegner (1995). Where the bluebird sings to the lemonade springs: living and writing in the West, Random House Value Pub
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Young writers should be encouraged to write, and discouraged from thinking they are writers. ✨ Wallace Stegner (2002). On Teaching and Writing Fiction, p.31, Penguin

No place is a place until things that have happened in it are remembered in history, ballads, yarns, legends, or monuments. Fictions serve as well as facts. ✨ Wallace Earle Stegner (1995). Where the bluebird sings to the lemonade springs: living and writing in the West, Random House Value Pub

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