Let your fiction grow out of the land beneath your feet.

― Willa Cather

“What was any art but a mold to imprison for a moment the shining elusive element which is life itself- life hurrying past us and running away, too strong to stop, too sweet to lose.”
― Willa Cather

“Artistic growth is, more than it is anything else, a refining of the sense of truthfulness. The stupid believe that to be truthful is easy; only the artist, the great artist, knows how difficult it is.”
― Willa Cather, The Song of the Lark

“Success is never so interesting as struggle.”
― Willa Cather

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