Quotes by Cather, Willa

The dead might as well try to speak to the living as the old to the yo >>

Artistic growth is, more than it is anything else, a refining of the s >>

The condition every art requires is, not so much freedom from restrict >>

Quotations about Writers and Writing

Books choose their authors; the act of creation is not entirely a rati >>

The need to express oneself in writing springs from a mal-adjustment t >>

A professional writer is an amateur who didn't quit. >>

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.

Cather, Willa