Dr. Howard Archie had just come up from a game of pool with the Jewish clothier and two traveling men who happened to be staying overnight in Moonstone.
Willa CatherYour vivid, exciting companionship in the office must not be your audience, you must find your own quiet center of life, and write from that to the world.
Willa CatherNo nation has ever produced great art that has not made a high art of cookery, because art appeals primarily to the senses.
Willa CatherIf you don't keep and guard and mature your force, and above all, have time and quiet to perfect your work, you will be writing things not much better than you did five years ago.
Willa CatherSometimes," I ventured, "it doesn't occur to boys that their mother was ever young and pretty. . . I couldn't stand it if you boys were inconsiderate, or thought of her as if she were just somebody who looked after you. You see I was very much in love with your mother once, and I know there's nobody like her.
Willa Cather