All Willa Cather Quotes
- A child's attitude toward everything is an artist's attitude. Artist
- Alcohol is perfectly consistent in its effects upon man. Drunkenness is merely an exaggeration. A foolish man drunk becomes maudlin; a bloody man, vicious; a… Alcohol
- I like trees because they seem more resigned to the way they have to live than other things do. Aging
- Old men are like that, you know. It makes them feel important to think they are in love with somebody. Feel
- Art and religion -they are the same thing, in the end, of course- have given man the only happiness he has ever had. Art
- It is easy to pity when once one's vanity has been tickled. Been
- I suppose there were moonless nights and dark ones with but a silver shaving and pale stars in the sky, but I remember them all… All
- Writing ought either to be the manufacture of stories for which there is a market demand - a business as safe and commendable as making… Art
- Of course Nebraska is a storehouse of literary material. Everywhere is a storehouse of literary material. If a true artist were born in a pigpen… Artist
- The condition every art requires is, not so much freedom from restriction, as freedom from adulteration and from the intrusion of foreign matter. Adulteration
- She had only to stand in the orchard, to put her hand on a little crab tree and look up at the apples, to make… Apples
- Life began for me, when I ceased to admire and began to remember. Admire
- Men are all right for friends, but as soon as you marry them they turn into cranky old fathers, even the wild ones. They begin… Accountable
- A work-room should be like an old shoe; no matter how shabby, it's better than a new one. Better
- Every artist makes himself born. It is very much harder than the other time, and longer. Artist
- Give the people a new word and they think they have a new fact. Fact
- It does not matter much whom we live with in this world, but it matters a great deal whom we dream of. Deal
- Whatever is felt upon the page without being specifically named there--that, we may say, is created. Created
- The supreme virtue in art is soul, perhaps it is the only thing which gives it the right to be. Art
- It is cremated youth. It is all yours--no one gave it to you. All
- I tell you there is such a thing as creative hate. Creative
- When kindness has left people, even for a few moments, we become afraid of them as if their reason had left them. When it has… Afraid
- He had been to see Mrs. Erlich just before starting home for the holidays, and found her making German Christmas cakes. She took him into… Almost Holy
- There is something frank and joyous and young in the open face of the country. It gives itself ungrudgingly to the moods of the season,… Country
- The test of one's decency is how much of a fight one can put up after one has stopped caring, and after one has found… Caring