Quote

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.

Eudora Welty

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Eudora Welty
Age: 102 †
Born: 1909
Born: April 13
Died: 2011
Died: July 23
Author
Autobiographer
Literary Critic
Novelist
Photographer
Writer
Jackson
Mississippi
Eudora Alice Welty
Sky
Brightest
Along
Nearest
Water
Reflects
Find
Strike
Look
Horizon
Looks
River
Strikes
Rivers
Habitation

More quotes by Eudora Welty

Image
The events in our lives happen in a sequence in time, but in their significance to ourselves they find their own order the continuous thread of revelation.
Eudora Welty
Image
To imagine yourself inside another person...is what a story writer does in every piece of work it is his first step, and his last too, I suppose.
Eudora Welty
Image
Every story teaches me how to write it. Unfortunately, it doesn't teach me how to write the next one.
Eudora Welty
Image
The fictional eye sees in, through, and around what is really there.
Eudora Welty
Image
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.
Eudora Welty
Image
Write about what you don't know about what you know.
Eudora Welty
Image
I get a moral satisfaction out of putting things together.
Eudora Welty
Image
The first act of insight is throw away the labels.
Eudora Welty
Image
Beware of a man with manners.
Eudora Welty
Image
All good writers speak in honest voices and tell the truth.
Eudora Welty
Image
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.
Eudora Welty
Image
At the time of writing, I don't write for my friends or myself either I write for it, for the pleasure of it.
Eudora Welty
Image
I believe in it, and I trust it too and treasure it above everything, the personal, the personal, the personal! I put my faith in it not only as the source, the ground of meaning in art, in life, but as the meaning itself.
Eudora Welty
Image
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.
Eudora Welty
Image
I cannot remember a time when I was not in love with them--with the books themselves, cover and binding and the paper they were printed on, with their smell and their weight and with their possession in my arms, captured and carried off to myself.
Eudora Welty
Image
Location pertains to feelings - feelings are bound up in place.
Eudora Welty
Image
Southerners love a good tale. They are born reciters, great memory retainers, diary keepers, letter exchangers . . . great talkers.
Eudora Welty
Image
Is there any sleeping person you can be entirely sure you have not misjudged?
Eudora Welty
Image
A good snapshot stops a moment from running away.
Eudora Welty
Image
Plots are ... what the writer sees with.
Eudora Welty