Tag Archives: Willa Cather

Other Lives

Posted on October 21, 2011 by karinwritesdangerously

“I have never found any intellectual excitement more intense than I used to feel when I spent a morning with one of these old women at her baking or butter-making…I always felt as if I had actually got inside another … Continue reading →

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Getting There

Posted on June 6, 2011 by karinwritesdangerously

“Aim at a high mark and you’ll hit it. No, not the first time, nor the second. Maybe not the third. But keep on aiming and keep on shooting, for only practice will make you perfect.” Annie Oakley Our gal … Continue reading →

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Cather’s Caveat

Posted on June 3, 2011 by karinwritesdangerously

“If the novel is a form of imaginative art, it cannot be at the same time a vivid and brilliant form of journalism. Out of the teeming, gleaming stream of the present it must select the eternal material of art…The … Continue reading →

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Dickens Day

Posted on October 6, 2010 by karinwritesdangerously

Bloomsday — who knew? Not me! I recently learned that June 16, the day James Joyce chronicled in Ulysses (June 16, 1904, to be exact), is celebrated every year in Dublin, where the story took place, and elsewhere as well. … Continue reading →

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