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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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Eudora Welty
Age: 102 †
Born: 1909
Born: April 13
Died: 2011
Died: July 23
Author
Autobiographer
Literary Critic
Novelist
Photographer
Writer
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Mississippi
Eudora Alice Welty
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Thunder
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Lightning
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What we know about writing the novel is the novel.
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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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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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Out of love you can speak with straight fury.
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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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I think that as you learn more about writing you learn to be direct.
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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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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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A good snapshot stops a moment from running away.
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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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Writing fiction has developed in me an abiding respect for the unknown in a human lifetime and a sense of where to look for the threads, how to follow, how to connect, find in the thick of the tangle what clear line persists.
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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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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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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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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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