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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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All good writers speak in honest voices and tell the truth.
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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.
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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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Time is anonymous when we give it a face, it's the same face the world over.
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There is absolutely everything in great fiction but a clear answer.
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Long before I wrote stories, I listened for stories.
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I wanted to read immediately. The only fear was that of books coming to an end.
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She read Dickens in the spirit in which she would have eloped with him.
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Radio, sewing machine, bookends, ironing board and that great big piano lamp - peace, that's what I like. Butterbean vines planted all along the front where the strings are.
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Beware of a man with manners.
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One place understood helps us understand all places better
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The first act of insight is throw away the labels.
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At the time of writing, I don't write for my friends or myself either I write for it, for the pleasure of it.
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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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No art ever came out of not risking your neck.
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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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Every story teaches me how to write it. Unfortunately, it doesn't teach me how to write the next one.
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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.
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Never think you've seen the last of anything.
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