Quotation of the Week: Willa Cather

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“Most of the basic material a writer works with is acquired before the age of fifteen.”

–Willa Cather, d. 4/24/47

Not sure exactly which source to cite to this one, but I found it on Twitter via the reliable @katcop13.

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  1. Jack says:
    May 3, 2011 at 10:29 am

    It looks like the quote comes from a profile of Cather in the journal The Bookman from 1921.

    See this serpentine Google Books link: http://books.google.com/books?id=3kUeAQAAIAAJ&pg=PA214&dq=before+the+age+of+fifteen+cather&hl=en&ei=tRDATaO1GoicgQfI-tnQBQ&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=7&ved=0CF0Q6AEwBg#v=onepage&q=before%20the%20age%20of%20fifteen%20cather&f=false

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