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
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.
heart alive earth
The heart, when it is too much alive, aches for that brown earth, and ecstasy has no fear of death.
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.
brother book eye
Claude Wheeler opened his eyes before the sun was up and vigorously shook his younger brother, who lay in the other half of the same bed.
drama emotional giving
Whatever is felt upon the page without being specifically named there - that, one might say, is created. It is the inexplicable presence of the thing not named, of the overtone divined by the ear but not heard by it, the verbal mood, the emotional aura of the fact or the thing or the deed, that gives high quality to the novel or the drama, as well as to poetry itself.
artist secret artistry
An artist's saddest secrets are those that have to do with his artistry.
pages may felt
Whatever is felt upon the page without being specifically named there--that, we may say, is created.
writing office world
Your vivid, exciting companionship in the office must not be your audience, you must find your own quiet center of life, and write from that to the world.
country time long
Merely having seen the season change in a country gave one the sense of having been there for a long time.
different findings seeking
Religion is different from everything else; because in religion seeking is finding.
ugly new-things newness
New things are always ugly.
dignity quiet protection
Money is a protection, a cloak; it can buy one quiet, and some sort of dignity.
summer moon sky
The summer moon hung full in the sky. For the time being it was the great fact of the world.
lying character creative
A creative writer can do his best only with what lies within the range and character of his deepest sympathies.