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
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 water forgiving
[Dawn] is always such a forgiving time. When that first cold, bright streak comes over the water, it's as if all our sins were pardoned; as if the sky leaned over the earth and kissed it and gave it absolution.
sky earth world
Elsewhere the sky is the roof of the world; but here the earth was the floor of the sky.
ruined publishers
Most publishers, like most writers, are ruined by their successes.
miracle perception turns
Miracles surround us at every turn if we but sharpen our perceptions of them.
land
The land belongs to the future.
i-can
I ain't got time to learn. I can work like mans now.
writing accomplishment novelists
The higher processes are all processes of simplification. The novelist must learn to write, and then he must unlearn it; just as the modern painter learns to draw, and then learns when utterly to disregard his accomplishment, when to subordinate it to a higher and truer effect.