Willa Cather
Quotations
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.
Give the people a new word and they think they have a new fact.
I tell you there is such a thing as creative hate!
Most of the basic material a writer works with is acquired before the age of fifteen.
No one can build his security upon the nobleness of another person.
Only solitary men know the full joys of friendship. Others have their family--but to a solitary and an exile his friends are everything.
The dead might as well try to speak to the living as the old to the young.
There are only two or three human stories, and they go on repeating themselves as fiercely as if they had never happened before.
We all like people who do things, even if we only see their faces on cigar-box lids.
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