Writing is a funny business. You sit in your room and listen to voices and write everything down. What kind of a profession is that?

- William Kittredge

It is our duty to preserve huge tracts of land in something resembling its native condition. The biological interactions necessary to insure the cont…

- William Kittredge

Places come to exist in our imaginations because of stories, and so do we. When we reach for a "sense of place," we posit an intimate relationship to…

- William Kittredge

We continually use stories to hold up as mirrors to ourselves.

- William Kittredge

The specific danger is us; we are rampant; this earth is our only friend; we are destroying it increment by increment at a horrific rate. We must und…

- William Kittredge

A man ... needs to get out in the open air and sweat and blow off the stink.

- William Kittredge

In a story, nothing is real until it is acted upon.

- William Kittredge

Don't worry about meaning. If a story's any good, it can't help but have meaning. Let the PhDs tell you what your story means.

- William Kittredge

I wonder what my father saw in his most secret sight of the right life. It's my guess he wanted to live out his life surrounded by friends and childr…

- William Kittredge