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Willa Cather Quotes about Age

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The dead might as well try to speak to the living as the old to the young.

The dead might as well try to speak to the living as the old to the young.

Willa Cather
Communication, Teaching, Age
Willa Cather (2013). “The Best of Willa Cather”, p.749, Simon and Schuster

Most of the basic material a writer works with is acquired before the age of fifteen.

Willa Cather
Writing, Age, Fifteen
Quoted in Rene¤ Rapin Willa Cather (1930).

The world is always full of brilliant youth which fades into grey and embittered middle age: the first flowering takes everything. The great men are those who have developed slowly, or who have been able to survive the glamour of their early florescence and to go on learning from life.

Willa Cather
Men, Age, Goes On
Willa Cather (1988). “Not Under Forty”, p.116, U of Nebraska Press

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