Willa Cather Quotes About Talent

Quotes about: Talent

• All the intelligence and talent in the world can't make a singer. The voice is a wild thing. It can't be bred in captivity. It is a sport, like the silver fox. It happens.

  Willa Cather

  Sports, Voice, Captivity

  Willa Cather (2013). “The Best of Willa Cather”, p.315, Simon and Schuster

• To note an artist's limitations is but to define his talent. A reporter can write equally well about everything that is presented to his view, but a creative writer can do his best only with what lies within the range and character of his deepest sympathies.

  Willa Cather

  Lying, Writing, Character

  Willa Cather (1988). “Not Under Forty”, p.81, U of Nebraska Press

• Sometimes I wonder why God ever trusts talent in the hands of women, they usually make such an infernal mess of it. I think He must do it as a sort of ghastly joke.

  Willa Cather

  Thinking, Hands, Talent

  Willa Cather (1967). “The Kingdom of Art: Willa Cather's First Principles and Critical Statements, 1893-1896”, p.408, U of Nebraska Press

• In this world people have to pay an extortionate price for any exceptional gift whatever.

  Willa Cather

  People, World, Pay

  Willa Cather (1992). “Stories, Poems, and Other Writings”

• To note an artist's limitations is but to define his talent.

  Willa Cather

  Artist, Talent, Notes

  Willa Cather (2013). “Not Under Forty”, p.47, Knopf

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