“Whatever is felt upon the page without being specifically named there — that, one might say, is created. It is the inexplicable presence of the thing not named, of the overtone divined by the ear but not heard by it, the verbal mood, the emotional aura of the fact or the thing or the deed, that gives high quality to the novel or the drama, as well as to poetry itself.”

—  Willa Cather

"The Novel Démeublé"; originally published in The New Republic (1922)
Not Under Forty (1936)

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American writer and novelist 1873–1947

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