Some memories are realities and are better than anything that can ever happen to one again. - Willa Cather

Artistic growth is, more than it is anything else, a refining of the sense of truthfulness.

I've seen it before. There are women who spread ruin through no fault of theirs, just by being too beautiful, too ful of life and love. They can't help it. Poeple come to them as people go to a warm fire in winter.

The qualities of a second-rate writer can easily be defined, but a first-rate writer can only be experienced. It is just the thing in him which escapes analysis that makes him first-rate.