Willa Cather
Willa Cather
Willa Sibert Catherwas an American author who achieved recognition for her novels of frontier life on the Great Plains, including O Pioneers!, The Song of the Lark, and My Ántonia. In 1923 she was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for One of Ours, a novel set during World War I...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth7 December 1873
CountryUnited States of America
book wife tables
Henry Colbert, the miller, always breakfasted with his wife--beyond that he appeared irregularly at the family table.
paris brave southern
All Southern women wished of their menfolk was simply to be 'like Paris handsome and like Hector brave'.
thinking hands talent
Sometimes I wonder why God ever trusts talent in the hands of women, they usually make such an infernal mess of it. I think He must do it as a sort of ghastly joke.
prayer people good-people
The prayers of all good people are good.
people world easier
People have to snatch at happiness when they can, in this world. It is always easier to lose than to find.
mean imagination quality
Imagination, which is a quality writers must have, does not mean the ability to weave pretty stories out of nothing. In the right sense, imagination is a response to what is going on — a sensitiveness to which outside things appeal. It is a composition of sympathy and observation.
people world pay
In this world people have to pay an extortionate price for any exceptional gift whatever.
miracle perception turns
Miracles surround us at every turn if we but sharpen our perceptions of them.
people
You must not begin to fret about the successes of cheap people. After all, what have they to do with you?
land
The land belongs to the future.
heart matter goes-on
If youth did not matter so much to itself, it would never have the heart to go on.
powerful past long
Nearly all the Escapists in the long past have managed their own budget and their social relations so unsuccessfully that I wouldn't want them for my landlords, or my bankers, or my neighbors. They were valuable, like powerful stimulants, only when they were left out of the social and industrial routine.
girl heart done
"More than him has done that," said Antonia sadly, and the girls murmured assent.
real book writing
It has long been a tradition among novel writers that a book must end by everybody getting just what they wanted, or if the conventional happy ending was impossible, then it must be a tragedy in which one or both should die. In real life very few of us get what we want, our tragedies don't kill us, but we go on living them year after year, carrying them with us like a scar on an old wound.