Willa Sibert Cather Quotes

Every fine story must leave in the mind of the sensitive reader an intangible residuum of pleasure, a cadence, a quality of voice that is exclusively the writer’s own, individual, unique.

Only solitary men know the full joys of friendship. Others have their family—but to a solitary and an exile his friends are everything.

Artistic growth is, more than it is anything else, a refining of the sense of truthfulness.

The history of every country begins in the heart of a man or a woman.