491 Quotes by Willa Cather

No one can build her security on the nobleness of another person

Men travel faster now, but I do not know if they go to better things.

Let people go on talking as they like, and we will go on living as we think best.

I was something that lay under the sun and felt it, like the pumpkins, and I did not want to be anything more. I was entirely happy. Perhaps we feel like that when we die and become a part of something entire, whether it is sun and air, or goodness and knowledge.

There was nothing but land; not a country at all, but the material out of which countries are made.

He had the uneasy manner of a man who is not among his own kind, and who has not seen enough of the world to feel that all people are in some sense his own kind

A creative writer can do his best only with what lies within the range and character of his deepest sympathies.

The air and the earth interpenetrated in the warm gusts of spring; the soil was full of sunlight, and the sunlight full of red dust. The air one breathed was saturated with earthy smells, and the grass under foot had a reflection of the blue sky in it.

Whatever is felt upon the page without being specifically named there -- that, we may say, is created.