Give the people a new word and they think they have a new fact.
From Willa Cather
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.
The fact that I was a girl never damaged my ambitions to be a pope or an emperor.
Of all the bewildering things about a new country, the absence of human landmarks is one of the most depressing and disheartening.
When kindness has left people, even for a few moments, we become afraid of them as if their reason had left them. When it has left a place where we have always found it, it is like shipwreck; we drop from security into something malevolent and bottomless.
The heart of another is a dark forest, always, no matter how close it has been to one's own.
Most of the basic material a writer works with is acquired before the age of fifteen.
It does not matter much whom we live with in this world, but it matters a great deal whom we dream of.
The condition every art requires is, not so much freedom from restriction, as freedom from adulteration and from the intrusion of foreign matter.
Desire is creation, is the magical element in that process. If there were an instrument by which to measure desire, one could foretell achievement.
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