Whatever is felt upon the page without being specifically named there — that, one might say, is created.

On the farm the weather was the great fact, and men's affairs went on underneath it, as the streams creep under the ice.

A work-room should be like an old shoe; no matter how shabby, it's better than a new one.

To fulfil the dreams of one's youth; that is the best that can happen to a man. No worldly success can take the place of that.

Let your fiction grow out of the land beneath your feet.

The prayers of all good people are good.

When people ask me if it has been a hard or easy road, I always answer with the same quotation, the end is nothing, the road is all.Willa Cather