Norman Maclean Quotes

Help, he said, is giving part of yourself to somebody who comes to accept it willingly and needs it badly. So it is, he said, using an old homiletic transition, that we can seldom help anybody. Either...

Help, he said, is giving part of yourself to somebody who comes to accept it willingly and needs it badly. So it is, he said, using an old homiletic transition, that we can seldom help anybody. Either...

Norman Maclean

He himself has thinned out to the vanishing point of being only decisions once made that he can't do anything about ever after.

Norman Maclean

He himself has thinned out to the vanishing point of being only decisions once made that he can't do anything about ever after.

Norman Maclean

About Author

Norman Fitzroy Maclean (December 23, 1902 – August 2, 1990) was an American professor at the University of Chicago who, following his retirement, became a major figure in American literature. Maclean is best known for his Hemingwayesque writing, his collection of novellas A River Runs Through It and Other Stories (1976), and the creative nonfiction book Young Men and Fire (1992).