Willa Cather Quotes:
Ocupation: Author
Life: December 7, 1873 - April 24, 1947
Birthday: December 7
Death: April 24
The "sayings" of a community, its proverbs, are its characteristic comment upon life; they imply its history, suggest its attitude toward the world and its way of accepting life. Such an idiom makes the finest language any writer can have; and he can never get it with a notebook. He himself must be able to think and feel in that speech - it is a gift from heart to heart.
source: Willa Cather (1988). “Not Under Forty”, p.83, U of Nebraska Press
topic: Notebook, Attitude, Heart, Accepting Life, Idiom
