Willa Cather Quotes About Books

Quotes about: Books

• It has long been a tradition among novel writers that a book must end by everybody getting just what they wanted, or if the conventional happy ending was impossible, then it must be a tragedy in which one or both should die. In real life very few of us get what we want, our tragedies don't kill us, but we go on living them year after year, carrying them with us like a scar on an old wound.

  Willa Cather

  Real, Book, Writing

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

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  Book, Reading, Writing

• Claude Wheeler opened his eyes before the sun was up and vigorously shook his younger brother, who lay in the other half of the same bed.

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  Brother, Book, Eye

  Willa Cather (2013). “The Best of Willa Cather”, p.661, Simon and Schuster

• So long as a novelist works selfishly for the pleasure of creating character and situation corresponding to his own illusions, ideals and intuitions, he will always produce something worth while and natural. Directly he takes himself too seriously and begins for the alleged benefit of humanity an elaborate dissection of complexes, he evolves a book that is more ridiculous and tiresome than the most conventional cold cream girl novel of yesterday.

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  Girl, Book, Character

  Willa Cather (1990). “Willa Cather in Person: Interviews, Speeches, and Letters”, p.59, U of Nebraska Press

• Henry Colbert, the miller, always breakfasted with his wife--beyond that he appeared irregularly at the family table.

  Willa Cather

  Book, Wife, Tables

• Thirty or forty years ago, in one those grey towns along the Burlington railroad which are so much greyer to-day than they were then, there was a house well know from Omaha to Denver for its hospitality and for a certain charm of atmosphere.

  Willa Cather

  Book, Years, House

  Willa Cather (2003). “A Lost Lady”, p.7, U of Nebraska Press

• One afternoon late in October of the year 1697, Euclide Auclair, the philosopher apothecary of Quebec, stood on the top of Cap Diamant gazing down the broad, empty river far beneath him.

  Willa Cather

  Book, Years, Rivers

• Late one brilliant April afternoon Professor Lucius Wilson stood at the head of Chestnut Street, looking about him with the pleased air of a man of taste who does not very often get to Boston.

  Willa Cather

  Book, Men, Air

  Willa Cather (2013). “The Essential Willa Cather Collection”, p.2, eBookIt.com

• Dr. Howard Archie had just come up from a game of pool with the Jewish clothier and two traveling men who happened to be staying overnight in Moonstone.

  Willa Cather

  Book, Men, Games

  Willa Cather (2013). “The Best of Willa Cather”, p.182, Simon and Schuster

• One summer evening in the year 1848, three Cardinals and a missionary were dining together in the gardens of a villa in the Sabine hills, overlooking Rome.

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  Summer, Book, Garden

  Willa Cather (2011). “Death Comes for the Archbishop”, p.3, Vintage

• Nothing mattered ... but writing books, and living the kind of life that made it possible to write them.

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  Book, Writing, Kind

  Willa Cather (1954). “My Antonia”

• In Haverford on the Platte the townspeople still talk of Lucy Gayheart.

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  Book, Stills, Lucy

  Willa Cather (2011). “Lucy Gayheart”, p.3, Vintage

• I first met Myra Henshawe when I was fifteen, but I had known her about ever since I could remember anything at all.

  Willa Cather

  Book, Fifteen, Firsts

• One January day, thirty years ago, the little town of Hanover, anchored on a windy Nebraska tableland, was trying not to be blown away.

  Willa Cather

  Book, Years, Trying

  Willa Cather (2015). “O Pioneers”, p.4, Xist Publishing

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