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Eudora Welty
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Eudora Welty
Age: 102 †
Born: 1909
Born: April 13
Died: 2011
Died: July 23
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Eudora Alice Welty
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Passion is our ground, our island - do others exist?
Eudora Welty
What I do in the writing of any character is to try to enter into the mind, heart and skin of a human being who is not myself. It is the act of a writer's imagination that I set the most high.
Eudora Welty
People give pain, are callous and insensitive, empty and cruel...but place heals the hurt, soothes the outrage, fills the terrible vacuum that these human beings make.
Eudora Welty
Out of love you can speak with straight fury.
Eudora Welty
There is absolutely everything in great fiction but a clear answer.
Eudora Welty
Fiction shows us the past as well as the present moment in mortal light it is an art served by the indelibility of our memory, and one empowered by a sharp and prophetic awareness of what is ephemeral. It is by the ephemeral that our feeling is so strongly aroused for what endures.
Eudora Welty
Every story teaches me how to write it. Unfortunately, it doesn't teach me how to write the next one.
Eudora Welty
When I read, I hear what's on the page. I don't know whose voice it is, but some voice is reading to me, and when I write my own stories, I hear it, too.
Eudora Welty
To write honestly and with all our powers is the least we can do, and the most.
Eudora Welty
The challenge to writers today, I think, is not to disown any part of our heritage. Whatever our theme in writing, it is old and tried. Whatever our place, it has been visited by the stranger, it will never be new again. It is only the vision that can be new but that is enough.
Eudora Welty
She read Dickens in the spirit in which she would have eloped with him.
Eudora Welty
Learning stamps you with its moments. Childhood's learning is made up of moments. It isn't steady. It's a pulse.
Eudora Welty
Location pertains to feelings - feelings are bound up in place.
Eudora Welty
I like the feeling of being able to confront an experience and resolve it as art.
Eudora Welty
Long before I wrote stories, I listened for stories.
Eudora Welty
One place comprehended can make us understand other places better.
Eudora Welty
Time is anonymous when we give it a face, it's the same face the world over.
Eudora Welty
Beware of a man with manners.
Eudora Welty
Look for where the sky is brightest along the horizon. That reflects the nearest river. Strike out for a river and you will find habitation.
Eudora Welty
Is there any sleeping person you can be entirely sure you have not misjudged?
Eudora Welty
