Wilder

Famous quotes containing the word wilder:

    I’ve never forgotten for long at a time that living is struggle. I know that every good and excellent thing in the world stands moment by moment on the razor-edge of danger and must be fought for—whether it’s a field, or a home, or a country.
    —Thornton Wilder (1897–1975)

    I somehow always have this idea that as soon as I can get through this work that’s piled up ahead of me, I’ll really write a beautiful thing. But I never do. I always have the idea that someday, somehow, I’ll be living a beautiful life. And that, too ... [ellipsis in source]
    —Rose Wilder Lane (1886–1968)

    Literature is the orchestration of platitudes.
    —Thornton Wilder (1897–1975)