Autobiography willa cather quotes on writing

“There are some things you learn best in calm, and some in storm.”
― Willa Cather, The Song of the Lark

“The heart of another is a dark forest, always, no matter how close it has been to one’s own.”
― Willa Cather

“The world is little, people are little, human life is little.

There is only one big thing — desire.”
― Willa Cather, The Song of the Lark

“Where there is great love, there are always miracles.”
― Willa Cather

“Whatever we had missed, we possessed together the precious, the incommunicable past.”
― Willa Cather, My Ántonia

“Most of the basic material a writer works with is acquired before the age of fifteen.”
― Willa Cather

“I was something that lay under the sun and felt it, like the pumpkins, and I did not w