Wallace Stegner quote: That night she wrote a hasty sketch and showed it to Oliver. "It's all right," he said. "But I'd take ...

That night she wrote a hasty sketch and showed it to Oliver. "It's all right," he said. "But I'd take out that stuff about Olympian mountains and the Stygian caverns of the mine. That's about used up, I should think.

~ Wallace Stegner ~

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