491 Quotes by Willa Cather

Old men are like that, you know. It makes them feel important to think they're in love with somebody.

One January day, thirty years ago, the little town of Hanover, anchored on a windy Nebraska tableland, was trying not to be blown away.

I first met Myra Henshawe when I was fifteen, but I had known her about ever since I could remember anything at all.

She heard him give his name, and came forward holding out her hand. "Is it you, indeed, Professor Wilson?

The idea of you is a part of my mind; you influence my likes and dislikes, all my tastes, hundreds of times when I don't realize it. You really are a part of me. In the course of twenty crowded years one parts with many illusions. I did not wish to lose the early ones. Some memories are realities, and are better than anything that can ever happen again.

In Haverford on the Platte the townspeople still talk of Lucy Gayheart.

No one person knows much more about writing than another. I expect that when people think they know anything about it, then their case is hopeless.

Life was so short that it meant nothing at all unless it were continually reinforced by something that endured; unless the shadows of individual existence came and went against a background that held together.

In other searchings it might be the object of the quest that brought satisfaction, or it might be something incidental that one got on the way; but in religion, desire was fulfilment, it was the seeking itself that rewarded.