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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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A good snapshot stops a moment from running away.
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One place comprehended can make us understand other places better.
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If you haven't surprised yourself, you haven't written.
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I wanted to read immediately. The only fear was that of books coming to an end.
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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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I think that as you learn more about writing you learn to be direct.
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Beware of a man with manners.
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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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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.
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Writing a story or a novel is one way of discovering sequence in experience, of stumbling upon cause and effect in the happenings of a writer's own life.
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Writing is an expression of the writer's own peculiar personality, could not help being so. Yet in reading great works one feels that the finished piece transcends the personal. All writers great and small must sometimes have felt that they have become part of what they wrote even more than it still remains a part of them.
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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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Insight doesn't happen often on the click of the moment, like a lucky snapshot, but comes in its own time and more slowly and from nowhere but within.
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Daydreaming had started me on the way but story writing once I was truly in its grip, took me and shook me awake.
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Once you're into a story everything seems to apply-what you overhear on a city bus is exactly what your character would say on the page you're writing. Wherever you go, you meet part of your story.
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What we know about writing the novel is the novel.
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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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No art ever came out of not risking your neck.
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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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The mystery lies in the use of language to express human life.
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