More From Willa Cather
- "The condition every art requires is, not so much freedom from restriction, as freedom from adulteration and from the intrusion of foreign matter."
- "That is happiness; to be dissolved into something complete and great."
- "The stupid believe that to be truthful is easy; only the artist, the great artist, knows how difficult it is."
More In Best
- "Reading a novel in which all characters illustrate patience, hard work, chastity, and delayed gratification could be a pretty dull experience."― Thomas Perry
- "A lot of women these days, a lot of young women don’t want to call themselves feminists. You have this cheap, hideous ‘girl power’ sort of fad, which I think is pretty benign at best, but at worst, I think it’s a way of taking the politics out of feminism and making it some kind of fashion."― Ani DiFranco
- "I have reached a place in my life where I need to sit down and say, ‘Well, what do I do? What’s best for me?’ I need to look into options for the future."― Michael Phelps