491 Quotes by Willa Cather

In little towns, lives roll along so close to one another; loves and hates beat about, their wings almost touching.

Success is less interesting than struggle. There is great pleasure in the effort.

Youth, art, love, dreams, true-heartedness - why must they go out of the summer world into darkness?

To note an artist's limitations is but to define his talent.

Hunger is a powerful incentive to introspection.

What if - what if Life itself were the sweetheart?

The trees and shrubbery seemed well-groomed and social, like pleasant people.

I don't want anyone reading my writing to think about style. I just want them to be in the story.

Some people's lives are affected by what happens to their person or their property; but for others fate is what happens to their feelings and their thoughts -- that and nothing more.