“Forgive my asking you to use your mind. It is a thing which no novelist should expect of his reader...”
Quotes by Owen Wister
“When a man ain't got no ideas of his own, he'd ought to be kind o' careful who he borrows 'em from.”
“It was neither preaching nor praying that made a better man of me, but one or two people who believed in me better than I deserved, and I hated to disappoint them.”
Owen WisterOwen Wister was an influential American author best known for his seminal work, The Virginian, published in 1902. This novel played a pivotal role in shaping the image of the cowboy as a quintessentia...