Quotes by : Willa Cather

Don't you feel that at this rate there isn't much in it? In what? In living at all, going on as we do.....

Either a building is part of a place or it is not. Once that kinship is there, time will only make it....

If words had cost money, Tom couldn't have used them more sparingly. The adjectives were purely descriptive,....

Where there is great love there are always wishes.

There was a basic harmony between Antonia and her mistress [Mrs. Harling]. They had strong, independent....

No one can builu her security upon the nobleness of another person.

Only a Woman, divine, could know all that a woman can suffer.

It's by understanding me, and the boys, and mother, that you have helped me. I expect that is the only....

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

But writing is a queer business. If one does anything that is sharp and keep enough to go over the line,....