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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

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Eudora Welty
Age: 102 †
Born: 1909
Born: April 13
Died: 2011
Died: July 23
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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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Every story teaches you how to write that story but not the next story.
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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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Write about what you don't know about what you know.
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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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Passion is our ground, our island - do others exist?
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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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Never think you've seen the last of anything.
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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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Travel itself is part of some longer continuity.
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People give pain, are callous and insensitive, empty and cruel...but place heals the hurt, soothes the outrage, fills the terrible vacuum that these human beings make.
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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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Out of love you can speak with straight fury.
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No art ever came out of not risking your neck.
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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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I get a moral satisfaction out of putting things together.
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How can you go out on a limb if you do not know your own tree? No art ever came out of not risking your neck. And risk--experiment--is a considerable part of the joy of doing.
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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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