Willa Cather Quote

Popular Authors:

Popular Occupations:

View as Image Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share on Pintrest Share on Tumblr

“A work-room should be like an old shoe; no matter how shabby, it's better than a new one.”

- Willa Cather

Source/Notes: Book I, Ch. 4 - The Professor's House (1925)

View as Image Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share on Pintrest Share on Tumblr

“All the intelligence and talent in the world can't make a singer. The voice is a wild thing. It can't be bred in captivity. It is a sport, like the silver fox. It happens.”

- Willa Cather

Source/Notes: Part II, Ch. 6 - The Song of the Lark (1915)

View as Image Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share on Pintrest Share on Tumblr

“Desire is creation, is the magical element in that process. If there were an instrument by which to measure desire, one could foretell achievement.”

- Willa Cather

Source/Notes: Book I, Ch. 1 - The Professor's House (1925)

View as Image Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share on Pintrest Share on Tumblr

“Every artist makes himself born. It is very much harder than the other time, and longer.”

- Willa Cather

Source/Notes: Part II, Ch. 3 - The Song of the Lark (1915)

View as Image Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share on Pintrest Share on Tumblr

“Give the people a new word and they think they have a new fact.”

- Willa Cather

Source/Notes: Four Letters: Escapism (1936) - Willa Cather on Writing (1949)

View as Image Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share on Pintrest Share on Tumblr

“I like trees because they seem more resigned to the way they have to live than other things do.”

- Willa Cather

Source/Notes: Part II, Ch. 8 - O Pioneers! (1913)

View as Image Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share on Pintrest Share on Tumblr

“I shall not die of a cold. I shall die of having lived.”

- Willa Cather

View as Image Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share on Pintrest Share on Tumblr

“It does not matter much whom we live with in this world, but it matters a great deal whom we dream of.”

- Willa Cather

Source/Notes: Youth and the Bright Medusa, A Gold Slipper (1920)

View as Image Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share on Pintrest Share on Tumblr

“Most of the basic material a writer works with is acquired before the age of fifteen.”

- Willa Cather

View as Image Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share on Pintrest Share on Tumblr

“No one can build his security upon the nobleness of another person.”

- Willa Cather

Source/Notes: Alexander's Bridge (1912)

View as Image Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share on Pintrest Share on Tumblr

“Of all the bewildering things about a new country, the absence of human landmarks is one of the most depressing and disheartening.”

- Willa Cather

Source/Notes: Part I, Ch. 2 - O Pioneers! (1913)

View as Image Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share on Pintrest Share on Tumblr

“Only solitary men know the full joys of frienship. Others have their family; but to a solitary and an exile, his friends are everything.”

- Willa Cather

View as Image Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share on Pintrest Share on Tumblr

“Paris is a hard place to leave, even when it rains incessantly and one coughs continually from the dampness.”

- Willa Cather

View as Image Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share on Pintrest Share on Tumblr

“Some memories are realities, and are better than anything that can ever happen to one again.”

- Willa Cather

Source/Notes: My Antonia (1946 edition), Plain Label Books - ISBN: 9781603038775

View as Image Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share on Pintrest Share on Tumblr

Willa Cather Quote

Popular Topics:

Popular Authors:

Popular Occupations: