18 Quotes by Wright Morris

In the blur of the photograph, time leaves its gleaming, snail-like track.

When writing is good, everything is symbolic, but symbolic writing is seldom good.

The photograph, after all, is just a photograph. Words will determine its meaning and status.

The past is useless. That explains why it is past.

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.

Images proliferate. Am I wrong in being reminded of printing money in a period of wild inflation? Do we know what we are doing? Are we able to evaluate what we have done?

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.

Cats don’t belong to people. They belong to places.

The camera eye is the one in the middle of our forehead, combining how we see with what there is to be seen.