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Southerners love a good tale. They are born reciters, great memory retainers, diary keepers, letter exchangers . . . great talkers.

Eudora Welty

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Eudora Welty
Age: 102 †
Born: 1909
Born: April 13
Died: 2011
Died: July 23
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Every story teaches you how to write that story but not the next story.
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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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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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Beware of a man with manners.
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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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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 short story is confined to one mood, to which everything in the story pertains. Characters, setting, time, events, are all subject to the mood. And you can try more ephemeral, more fleeting things in a story - you can work more by suggestion - than in a novel. Less is resolved, more is suggested, perhaps.
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She read Dickens in the spirit in which she would have eloped with him.
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Location pertains to feelings - feelings are bound up in place.
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The fictional eye sees in, through, and around what is really there.
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Plots are ... what the writer sees with.
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One place comprehended can make us understand other places better.
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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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There's still a strange moment with every book when I move from the position of writer to the position of reader and I suddenly see my words with the eyes of the cold public. It gives me a terrible sense of exposure, as if I'd gotten sunburned.
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Long before I wrote stories, I listened for stories. Listening for them is something more acute than listening to them.
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Passion is our ground, our island - do others exist?
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I like the feeling of being able to confront an experience and resolve it as art.
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I wanted to read immediately. The only fear was that of books coming to an end.
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Out of love you can speak with straight fury.
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