Writing ought either to be the manufacture of stories for which there is a market demand -- a business as safe and commendable as making soap or breakfast foods -- or it should be an art, which is always a search for something for which there is no market demand, something new and untried, where the values are intrinsic and have nothing to do with standardized values.
More Quotes from Willa Cather:
I suppose there were moonless nights and dark ones with but a silver shaving and pale stars in the sky, but I remember them all as flooded with the rich indolence of a full moon.Willa Cather
We all like people who do things, even if we only see their faces on a cigar-box lid.
Willa Cather
I tell you there is such a thing as creative hate.
Willa Cather
Sometimes I wonder why God ever trusts talent in the hands of women, they usually make such an infernal mess of it. I think He must do it as a sort of ghastly joke.
Willa Cather
The fact that I was a girl never damaged my ambitions to be a pope or an emperor.
Willa Cather
I like trees because they seem more resigned to the way they have to live than other things do.
Willa Cather
Readers Who Like This Quotation Also Like:
Based on Topics: Art Quotes, Business & Commerce Quotes, Writing QuotesBased on Keywords: standardized, untried
On the theoretical side, I was concerned with stochastic resonance.
Richard Ernst
Attempting to get at truth means rejecting stereotypes and cliches.
Harold Evans
You can't raise the standard of women's morals by raising their pay envelope. It lies deeper than that.
Billy Sunday