Creative Quotations from Willa Cather (1876-1947)

Creative Quotations from . . .

Willa Cather
(1876-1947) born on Dec 07

US "novelist, short-story writer". "She was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for her novel "One of Ours," 1922; she also wrote "O Pioneers," 1913."

There are some things you learn best in calm, and some in storm."

Religion and art spring from the same root and are close kin. Economics and art are strangers.

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

To note an artist's limitations is but to define his talent.

"Winter lies too long in country towns; hangs on until it is stale and shabby, old and sullen."

Published Sources for the above Quotations:
F:	"In "Words of Women Quotations for Success," by Power Dynamics Publishing, 1997."
R:	""On Writing," "Four Letters: Escapism" (1949), written 1936."
A:	""O Pioneers!" pt. 2, ch. 4, 1913."
N:	""Not Under Forty," "Miss Jewett," 1936."
K:	"My Antonia, bk. 2, ch. 7 (1918)."