Willa Cather

(399 votes)   Artistic growth is, more than it is anything else, a refining of the sense of truthfulness. The stupid believe that to be truthful is easy; only the artist, the great artist, knows how difficult it is.

Willa Cather
1876-1947, American Author

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(268 votes)   Nearly all the Escapists in the long past have managed their own budget and their social relations so unsuccessfully that I wouldn't want them for my landlords, or my bankers, or my neighbors. They were valuable, like powerful stimulants, only when they were left out of the social and industrial routine.

Willa Cather
1876-1947, American Author

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(98 votes)   Art, it seems to me, should simplify finding what conventions of form and what detail one can do without and yet preserve the spirit of the whole -- so that all that one has suppressed and cut away is there to the reader's consciousness as much as if it were in type on the page.

Willa Cather
1876-1947, American Author

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(90 votes)   The history of every country begins in the heart of a man or woman

Willa Sibert Cather

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(86 votes)   The history of every country begins in the heart of a man or woman.

Willa Sibert Cather

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(81 votes)   Writing ought either to be the manufacture of stories for which there is a market demand -- a business as safe and commendable as making soap or breakfast foods -- or it should be an art, which is always a search for something for which there is no market demand, something new and untried, where the values are intrinsic and have nothing to do with standardized values.

Willa Cather
1876-1947, American Author

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(70 votes)   I shall not die of a cold. I shall die of having lived.

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(67 votes)   There are only two or three human stories, and they go on repeating themselves as fiercely as if they had never happened before.

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(65 votes)   The fact that I was a girl never damaged my ambitions to be a pope or an emperor.

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(61 votes)   Where there is great love there are always miracles.

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(58 votes)   Some memories are realities, and are better than anything that can ever happen to one again.

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(58 votes)   The miracles of the church seem to me to rest not so much upon faces or voices or healing power coming suddenly near to us from afar off, but upon our perceptions being made finer, so that for a moment our eyes can see and our ears can hear what is there about us always.

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(57 votes)   The thing that teases the mind over and over for years, and at last gets itself put down rightly on paper whether little or great, it belongs to Literature.

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(51 votes)   Sometimes a neighbor whom we have disliked a lifetime for his arrogance and conceit lets fall a single commonplace remark that shows us another side, another man, really; a man uncertain, and puzzled, and in the dark like ourselves.

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(46 votes)   To note an artist's limitations is but to define his talent. A reporter can write equally well about everything that is presented to his view, but a creative writer can do his best only with what lies within the range and character of his deepest sympathies.

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