Most of the basic material a writer works with is acquired before the age of fifteen. Willa Cather More Quotes by Willa Cather More Quotes From Willa Cather Success is never so interesting as struggle Willa Cather giving-upstrugglesuccess There are some things you learn best in calm, and some in storm. Willa Cather naturesummerinspirational When kindness has left people, even for a few moments, we become afraid of them as if their reason had left them. When it has left a place where we have always found it, it is like shipwreck; we drop from security into something malevolent and bottomless. Willa Cather kindnessinspirationalpeople Elsewhere the sky is the roof of the world; but here the earth was the floor of the sky. Willa Cather earthskyworld Miracles surround us at every turn if we but sharpen our perceptions of them. Willa Cather turnsmiracleperception One cannot divine nor forecast the conditions that will make happiness; one only stumbles upon them by chance, in a lucky hour, at the world's end somewhere, and hold fast to the days. Willa Cather luckyhappinessworld The fact that I was a girl never damaged my ambitions to be a pope or an emperor. Willa Cather girlambitionfacts It takes a great deal of experience to become natural. Willa Cather dealsnatural Some things are best learned in calm, others in storm. Willa Cather calmstorm The soul cannot be humbled by fasts and prayer; it must be broken by mortal sin to experience forgiveness of sin and rise to a state of grace. Otherwise, religion is nothing but dead logic. Willa Cather brokengraceprayer The end is nothing; the road is all. Willa Cather endslife That is happiness; to be dissolved into something complete and great. Willa Cather purposespiritualhappiness There are only two or three human stories, and they go on repeating themselves as fiercely as if they had never happened before. Willa Cather niecewiselife The only thing very noticeable about Nebraska was that it was still, all day long, Nebraska. Willa Cather nebraskastateslong Men travel faster now, but I do not know if they go to better things. Willa Cather fasterknowsmen 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. Willa Cather memoriesrealityyears Writing ought either to be the manufacture of stories for which there is a market demand - a business as safe and commendable as making soap or breakfast foods - or it should be an art, which is always a search for something for which there is no market demand, something new and untried, where the values are intrinsic and have nothing to do with standardized values. Willa Cather breakfast-foodwritingart The test of one's decency is how much of a fight one can put up after one has stopped caring, and after one has found out that one can never please the people they wanted to please. Willa Cather fightingcaringwriting Even the wicked get worse than they deserve. Willa Cather punishmentwickedfate The land belongs to the future. Willa Cather land
