Quotes About Willa Cather

Nebraska was home to indigenous peoples for centuries. It became a state in 1867, and has produced an important literary figure, Willa Cather, as well as an investor said to be the world's second richest man, Warren Buffett.

Desire is creation, is the magical element in that process. If there were an instrument by which to measure desire, one could foretell achievement.

The Plains, Willa Cather wrote years later, are "the happiness and the curse of my life."104

I ain't got time to learn. I can work like mans now.

She had spent that summer and early fall fancying herself a character in a Willa Cather novel, so caught up in the symbolic bounty of the harvest