Quotes by Cather, Willa

Winter lies too long in country towns; hangs on until it is stale and >>

Where there is great love there are always miracles. >>

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

Quotations about Editing and Editors

What I have crossed out I didn't like. What I haven't crossed out I'm >>

Editing is the same as quarreling with writers -- same thing exactly. >>

Would you convey my compliments to the purist who reads your proofs an >>

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.

Cather, Willa