Artistic growth is, more than it is anything else, a refining of the sense of truthfulness.
Willa CatherThere is often a good deal of the child left in people who have had to grow up too soon.
Willa CatherThirty or forty years ago, in one those grey towns along the Burlington railroad which are so much greyer to-day than they were then, there was a house well know from Omaha to Denver for its hospitality and for a certain charm of atmosphere.
Willa CatherArt, it seems to me, should simplify finding what conventions of form and what detail one can do without and yet preserve the spirit of the whole - so that all that one has suppressed and cut away is there to the reader's consciousness as much as if it were in type on the page.
Willa Cather