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 years rivers
One afternoon late in October of the year 1697, Euclide Auclair, the philosopher apothecary of Quebec, stood on the top of Cap Diamant gazing down the broad, empty river far beneath him.
ideas certain companion
She had certain thoughts which were like companions, ideas which were like older and wiser friends.
brother book eye
Claude Wheeler opened his eyes before the sun was up and vigorously shook his younger brother, who lay in the other half of the same bed.
book years trying
One January day, thirty years ago, the little town of Hanover, anchored on a windy Nebraska tableland, was trying not to be blown away.
book fifteen firsts
I first met Myra Henshawe when I was fifteen, but I had known her about ever since I could remember anything at all.
book stills lucy
In Haverford on the Platte the townspeople still talk of Lucy Gayheart.
thinking talking people
Let people go on talking as they like, and we will go on living as we think best.
lying character creative
A creative writer can do his best only with what lies within the range and character of his deepest sympathies.
country depressing absence
Of all the bewildering things about a new country, the absence of human landmarks is one of the most depressing and disheartening.
father men cranky
Men are all right for friends, but as soon as you marry them they turn into cranky old fathers, even the wild ones.
tree today walking
Today I stood taller from walking among the trees.
too-much too-much-information information
Too much information is rather deadening.
people happy-people deals
Happy people do a great deal for their friends.
writing office world
Your vivid, exciting companionship in the office must not be your audience, you must find your own quiet center of life, and write from that to the world.