To note an artist's limitation is but to define his genius. A reporter can write equally well about everything that is presented to his view, but a creative writer can do his best only with what lies within the range and character of his talent. - Willa Cather, in the preface to Sarah Orne Jewett's The Country of Pointed Firs and Other Stories
Willa Cather On the Artist's Limitation
Wendell Berry On the Sentence as a Way of Thinking
