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Creative Quotations from Willa Cather (1876-1947) born on Dec 7 US novelist, short-story writer; She was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for her novel One.

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2 Creative Quotations from Willa Cather (1876-1947) born on Dec 7 US novelist, short-story writer; She was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for her novel One of Ours, 1922; she also wrote O Pioneers, 1913.

3 There are some things you learn best in calm, and some in storm.

4 Give the people a new word and they think they have a new fact.

5 What was any art but an effort to make a sheath, a mold in which to imprison for a moment the shining, elusive element which is life itself.

6 Art should simplify… finding what conventions of form and what detail one can do without and yet preserve the spirit of the whole.

7 I tell you there is such a thing as creative hate.

8 Simplify your Creative Thinking with Creative Quotations! Visit CreativeQuotations.com today!

9 CREDITS: Copyright 2008, Baertracks. BeMoreCreative & Creative Quotations are registered trademarks. Public domain photo by Van Vechten from Wikimedia Commons. Background music from Sound Ideas.

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