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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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it doesn t matter if it takes a long time getting there the point is to have a destination.
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To open up the new, to look back on the old may bring forth like discoveries in the practice of art.
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A whole tree of lightning stood in the sky. She kept looking out the window, suffused with the warmth from the fire and with the pity and beauty and power of her death. The thunder rolled.
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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.
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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.
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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 would be another story, and unrecognizable if it took up its characters and plot and happened somewhere else ... Fiction depends for its life on place. Place is the crossroads of circumstance, the proving ground of, What happened? Who's here? Who's coming?
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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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My own words, when I am at work on a story, I hear too as they go, in the same voice that I hear when I read in books. When I write and the sound of it comes back to my ears, then I act to make changes. I have always trusted this voice.
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Is there any sleeping person you can be entirely sure you have not misjudged?
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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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All good writers speak in honest voices and tell the truth.
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Don't give anybody up. He stroked her. Or leave anybody out. Me and you both left her out today, and I'm ashamed for us. There just wasn't room in today for it ... He said, There's room for everything, and time for everybody, if you take your day the way it comes along and try not to be much later than you can help.
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A thing is incredible, if ever, only after it is told -- returned to the world it came out of.
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I like the feeling of being able to confront an experience and resolve it as art.
Eudora Welty
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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Through travel I first became aware of the outside world it was through travel that I found my own introspective way into becoming a part of it.
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The first act of insight is throw away the labels.
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To write honestly and with all our powers is the least we can do, and the most.
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