Wallace Stegner Quotes

When people ask where I'm from, I tell them Washington, because that's where I feel the most comforted by the people.

Everything must belong somewhere. I know that now, that's why I'm staying here.

Some of us are born in the right place, and some of us have to go look for it.

Sometimes you have to wander around until you find where you really belong. And sometimes it's right where you started.

No matter what happens to me and my career in the future, Berlin is always going to be my hometown.

He traveled in order to come home.

The thing about coming back to the Bay Area, it's like coming home for me.

For me, New York is home because that's where I'm from.

Home is one's birthplace, ratified by memory.

American? Indian? I don't know what these words mean. In Italy, it is all about blood, family, where you come from. I'm asked where I am from. I'm from nowhere; I always was, but now I am happy knowing it.

Language, identity, place, home: these are all of a piece - just different elements of belonging and not-belonging.

People always think I left, and I was living in the States for a long time... But home has always been Calgary.

A big piece of my heart is definitely in Michigan and will always be in Michigan. Growing up there is definitely a big part of who I am as a person.

The best thing you can do is remember your home town.

Though I had been born in Maryland, Montana was where I truly belonged.

No matter where I've been or where I go, a piece of Missouri is always with me because this is where I'm from and where I grew up.

It's the place to begin, always -- to return to home, literally.

Where you're from only matters in relation to where you are.

That's what the American odyssey is really about: Leaving home. Leaving home and coming home, and trying to understand the difference.

Lowell is my home. It is where I drew my first breath. It is where I will always derive a sense of place and a sense of belonging

When people ask me where my roots are, I look down at my feet, and I see the roots of my soul grasping the earth. They are here... in the Southwest... I still live in New Mexico.

If anybody asks me where I'm from, my first inclination is to say, 'Washington,' because that's where I grew up meaningfully.

You can have more than one home. You can carry your roots with you, and decide where they grow.

Home is where one starts from.

South Central is just who I am.