Willa Cather Quotes about Lying

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The sky was a midnight-blue, like warm, deep, blue water, and the moon seemed to lie on it like a water-lily, floating forward with an invisible current.

The sky was a midnight-blue, like warm, deep, blue water, and the moon seemed to lie on it like a water-lily, floating forward with an invisible current.

Willa Cather

Lying, Moon, Blue

Willa Cather (2013). “The Best of Willa Cather”, p.782, Simon and Schuster

Winter lies too long in country towns; hangs on until it is stale and shabby, old and sullen.

Willa Cather

Country, Lying, Winter

1918 My Antonia, bk.2, ch.7.

To note an artist's limitations is but to define his talent. A reporter can write equally well about everything that is presented to his view, but a creative writer can do his best only with what lies within the range and character of his deepest sympathies.

Willa Cather

Lying, Writing, Character

Willa Cather (1988). “Not Under Forty”, p.81, U of Nebraska Press

For ever and anon the soul becomes weary of the conventions that are not of it, and with a single stroke shatters the civilized lies with which it is unable to cope, and the strong arm reaches out and takes by force what it cannot win by cunning.

Willa Cather

Strong, Lying, Winning

Willa Cather (2000). “The Troll Garden: Short Stories”, p.18, U of Nebraska Press

This is reality, whether you like it or not--all those frivolities of summer, the light and shadow, the living mask of green that trembled over everything, they were lies, and this is what was underneath. This is the truth.

Willa Cather

Summer, Lying, Reality

Willa Cather (2013). “The Essential Willa Cather Collection”, p.463, eBookIt.com