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Imagination, which is a quality writers must have, does not mean the ability to weave pretty stories out of nothing. In the right sense, imagination is a response to what is going on — a sensitiveness to which outside

Imagination, which is a quality writers must have, does not mean the ability to weave pretty stories out of nothing. In the right sense, imagination is a response to what is going on — a sensitiveness to which outside things appeal. It is a composition of sympathy and observation.

Willa Cather
Mean, Imagination, Quality
Willa Cather (1990). “Willa Cather in Person: Interviews, Speeches, and Letters”, p.15, U of Nebraska Press

The irregular and intimate quality of things made entirely by the human hand.

Willa Cather
Hands, Quality, Intimate
1927 Death Comes to the Archbishop, bk.1, ch.3.

The qualities of a second-rate writer can easily be defined, but a first-rate writer can only be experienced. It is just the thing in him which escapes analysis that makes him first-rate.

Willa Cather
Quality, Analysis, Firsts
Willa Cather (2013). “Not Under Forty”, p.74, Knopf

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