Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
The prayers of all good people are good.
Willa Cather
Share
Change background
T
T
T
Change font
Original
TAGS & TOPICS
Willa Cather
Age: 73 †
Born: 1873
Born: December 7
Died: 1947
Died: April 24
Author
Biographer
Essayist
Journalist
Novelist
Poet
Writer
Willa Sibert Cather
Prayers
Prayer
Good
People
More quotes by Willa Cather
I don't want anyone reading my writing to think about style. I just want them to be in the story.
Willa Cather
Success is never so interesting as struggle
Willa Cather
Life began for me, when I ceased to admire and began to remember.
Willa Cather
If you don't keep and guard and mature your force, and above all, have time and quiet to perfect your work, you will be writing things not much better than you did five years ago.
Willa Cather
More than him has done that, said Antonia sadly, and the girls murmured assent.
Willa Cather
Religion and art spring from the same root and are close kin.
Willa Cather
Most publishers, like most writers, are ruined by their successes.
Willa Cather
The dead might as well try to speak to the living as the old to the young.
Willa Cather
There is something frank and joyous and young in the open face of the country. It gives itself ungrudgingly to the moods of the season, holding nothing back.
Willa Cather
She had certain thoughts which were like companions, ideas which were like older and wiser friends.
Willa Cather
Pittsburgh was even more vital, more creative, more hungry for culture than New York. Pittsburgh was the birthplace of my writing.
Willa Cather
Now that Stevenson is dead I can think of but one English- speaking author who is really keeping his self-respect and sticking forperfection. Of course I refer to that mighty master of language and keen student of human actions and motives, Henry James.
Willa Cather
Hunger is a powerful incentive to introspection.
Willa Cather
In little towns, lives roll along so close to one another loves and hates beat about, their wings almost touching.
Willa Cather
What was any art but a mould in which to imprison for a moment the shining elusive element which is life itself - life hurrying past us and running away, too strong to stop, too sweet to lose.
Willa Cather
The only thing very noticeable about Nebraska was that it was still, all day long, Nebraska.
Willa Cather
The heart of another is a dark forest, always, no matter how close it has been to one's own.
Willa Cather
Youth, art, love, dreams, true-heartedness - why must they go out of the summer world into darkness?
Willa Cather
Art, it seems to me, should simplify.
Willa Cather
If we never arrived anywhere, it did not matter. Between that earth and that sky i felt erased, blotted out. I did not say my prayers that night: here, i felt what would be would be.
Willa Cather