However much [photographs] may lie, they do so with the raw materials of truth.

- Wright Morris

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

- Wright Morris

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

- Wright Morris

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

- Wright Morris

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 evalua…

- Wright Morris

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

- Wright Morris

The man who comes to writing late, but is in essence a writer, may sometimes gain as much as he has lost: his experience of life has given him a subj…

- Wright Morris

After many months of writing, it occured to me that it might be possible to photograph, in the flesh, what I was attempting to capture in words. I bo…

- Wright Morris

[We] make images to see clearly: then we see clearly what we have made.

- Wright Morris