Willa Cather Quotes

So long as a novelist works selfishly for the pleasure of creating character and situation corresponding to his own illusions, ideals and intuitions, he will always produce something worth while and natural. Directly he takes himself too seriously and begins for the alleged benefit of humanity an elaborate dissection of complexes, he evolves a book that is more ridiculous and tiresome than the most conventional cold cream girl novel of yesterday.

Willa Cather

Quotes to Explore

I've always liked stories. I'm always reading, ever since I was a kid. I've always been reading and wanting to be in some other world. This is the perfect job for me.

Garrett Dillahunt
- World
- Job
- Reading
Cooking is like music: you can tell when someone puts love into it. I come from a place where there was so much attention to detail. The population is smaller in the South, so more attention is given to serving smaller numbers of people.

Taylor Hicks
- Music
- Attention
- Like
It's a rough and tumble game whenever power is involved - people's ambitions, their desires, their competitive spirit will often push them to play outside the rules. It's dramatic, it's interesting, and I think it's something we can all identify with to a degree.

Beau Willimon
- People
- Power
- Game
Born to a tribal Bedouin family of nomadic desert shepherds in the region of Tripoli, Gaddafi was profoundly anti-colonialist. It is affirmed that his paternal grandfather died fighting against the Italian invaders when Libya was invaded by them in 1911.

Fidel Castro
- Family
- Fighting
- Italian
Among my generation, there was a purist position that any contact with electoral politics was an unforgiveable compromise.

Naomi Klein
- Politics
- Generation
Sometimes your parents are the ones with the biggest mouths of all time.

Dakota Johnson
- Time
- Parents
- Sometimes