Willa Cather
Willa Cather
Willa Sibert Catherwas an American author who achieved recognition for her novels of frontier life on the Great Plains, including O Pioneers!, The Song of the Lark, and My Ántonia. In 1923 she was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for One of Ours, a novel set during World War I...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth7 December 1873
CountryUnited States of America
Willa Cather quotes about
breathing cities generations
If the street life, not the Whitechapel street life, but that of the common but so-called respectable part of town is in any city more gloomy, more ugly, more grimy, more cruel than in London, I certainly don't care to see it. Sometimes it occurs to one that possibly all the failures of this generation, the world over, have been suddenly swept into London, for the streets are a restless, breathing, malodorous pageant of the seedy of all nations.
vanity pity easy
It is easy to pity when once one's vanity has been tickled.
prayer night sky
If we never arrived anywhere, it did not matter. Between that earth and that sky i felt erased, blotted out. I did not say my prayers that night: here, i felt what would be would be.
dream world matter
It does not matter much whom we live with in this world, but it matters a great deal whom we dream of.
unique voice mind
Every fine story must leave in the mind of the sensitive reader an intangible residuum of pleasure, a cadence, a quality of voice that is exclusively the writer's own, individual, unique.
kindness people philanthropy
When kindness has left people, even for a few moments, we become afraid of them, as if their reason had left them.
dignity quiet protection
Money is a protection, a cloak; it can buy one quiet, and some sort of dignity.
personality storm horizon
William Tavener never heeded ominous forecasts in the domestic horizon, and he never looked for a storm until it broke.
should-have ideas imagination
A pioneer should have imagination, should be able to enjoy the idea of things more than the things themselves.
stronger building kinship
Setting ... is accident. Either a building is part of a place, or it is not. Once that kinship is there, time will only make it stronger.
storm calm
Some things are best learned in calm, others in storm.
snakes bigs fellows
I had killed a big snake. I was now a big fellow.
mistake thinking hens
Thea was still under the belief that public opinion could be placated; that if you clucked often enough, the hens would mistake you for one of themselves.
sky earth world
Elsewhere the sky is the roof of the world; but here the earth was the floor of the sky.