Willa Cather Quotes About Quality

Quotes about: Quality

• 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.

  Willa Cather

  Unique, Voice, Mind

  1936 Not Under Forty, 'Miss Jewett'.

• Imagination, which is a quality writers must have, does not mean the ability to weave pretty stories out of nothing. In the right sense, imagination is a response to what is going on — a sensitiveness to which outside things appeal. It is a composition of sympathy and observation.

  Willa Cather

  Mean, Imagination, Quality

  Willa Cather (1990). “Willa Cather in Person: Interviews, Speeches, and Letters”, p.15, U of Nebraska Press

• The irregular and intimate quality of things made entirely by the human hand.

  Willa Cather

  Hands, Quality, Intimate

  1927 Death Comes to the Archbishop, bk.1, ch.3.

• Whatever is felt upon the page without being specifically named there - that, one might say, is created. It is the inexplicable presence of the thing not named, of the overtone divined by the ear but not heard by it, the verbal mood, the emotional aura of the fact or the thing or the deed, that gives high quality to the novel or the drama, as well as to poetry itself.

  Willa Cather

  Drama, Emotional, Giving

  Willa Cather (1988). “Not Under Forty”, p.50, U of Nebraska Press

• The qualities of a second-rate writer can easily be defined, but a first-rate writer can only be experienced. It is just the thing in him which escapes analysis that makes him first-rate.

  Willa Cather

  Quality, Analysis, Firsts

  Willa Cather (2013). “Not Under Forty”, p.74, Knopf

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