Willa Cather Quote

The higher processes are all processes of simplification. The novelist must learn to write, and then he must unlearn it; just as the modern painter learns to draw, and then learns when utterly to disregard his accomplishment, when to subordinate it to a higher and truer effect.


"The Novel Démeublé" - Not Under Forty (1936)


The higher processes are all processes of simplification. The novelist must learn to write, and then he must unlearn it; just as the modern painter...

The higher processes are all processes of simplification. The novelist must learn to write, and then he must unlearn it; just as the modern painter...

The higher processes are all processes of simplification. The novelist must learn to write, and then he must unlearn it; just as the modern painter...

The higher processes are all processes of simplification. The novelist must learn to write, and then he must unlearn it; just as the modern painter...