Willa Cather
American writer
WORDS ABOUT WORDS
My life is full of jealousies and disappointments, you know. You get to hating people who do contemptible work and who get on just as well as you do. There are many disappointments in my profession, and bitter, bitter contempts! ... If you love the good thing vitally, enough to give up for it all that one must give up for it, then you must hate the cheap thing just as hard. I tell you, there is such a thing as creative hate! A contempt that drives you through fire, makes you risk everything and lose everything, makes you a long sight better than you ever knew you could be.
—Willa Cather, American writer, The Song of the Lark, 1915
Posted on January 21, 2004 at 11:27 PM
WORDS ABOUT WORDS
Give the people a new word and they think they have a new fact.
—Willa Cather, American writer, On Writing
Posted on January 22, 2002 at 11:24 PM
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