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Write about what you don't know about what you know.

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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Greater than scene is situation. Greater than situation is implication. Greater than all of these is a single, entire human being, who will never be confined in any frame.
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Beauty is not a means, not a way of furthering a thing in the world. It is a result it belongs to ordering, to form, to aftereffect.
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It had been startling and disappointing to me to find out that story books had been written by people, that books were not natural wonders, coming of themselves like grass.
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Southerners love a good tale. They are born reciters, great memory retainers, diary keepers, letter exchangers . . . great talkers.
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The mystery lies in the use of language to express human life.
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Beware of a man with manners.
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Travel itself is part of some longer continuity.
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I think that as you learn more about writing you learn to be direct.
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The fictional eye sees in, through, and around what is really there.
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No art ever came out of not risking your neck.
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There is absolutely everything in great fiction but a clear answer.
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I wanted to read immediately. The only fear was that of books coming to an end.
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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.
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Relationship is a pervading and changing mystery... brutal or lovely, the mystery waits for people wherever they go, whatever extreme they run to.
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Every story teaches you how to write that story but not the next story.
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The events in our lives happen in a sequence in time, but in their significance to ourselves they find their own order the continuous thread of revelation.
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The novelist works neither to correct nor to condone, not at all to comfort, but to make what's told alive.
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For the night was not impartial. No, the night loved some more than others, served some more than others.
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