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A work-room should be like an old shoe; no matter how shabby, it's better than a new one.
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.
Art, it seems to me, should simplify finding what conventions of form and what detail one can do without and yet preserve the spirit of the whole - so that all that one has suppressed and cut away is there to the reader's consciousness ... (more Willa Cather quotes)
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Willa Cather : Later Novels : A Lost Lady / The Professor's House / Death Comes for the Archbishop / Shadows on the Rock / Lucy Gayheart / Sapphira and the Slave Girl (The Library of America) by Willa Cather and Sharon O'Brien |
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Willa Cather: Stories, Poems, and Other Writings (Library of America) by Willa Cather and Sharon O'Brien |
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Willa Cather: A Life Saved Up by Hermione Lee |
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