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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.

Eudora Welty

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Eudora Welty
Age: 102 †
Born: 1909
Born: April 13
Died: 2011
Died: July 23
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Plots are ... what the writer sees with.
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My main disappointment was always that a book had to end. And then what? But I don't think I was ever disappointed by the books. I must have been what any author would consider an ideal reader. I felt every pain and pleasure suffered or enjoyed by all the characters. Oh, but I identified!
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Characters take on life sometimes by luck, but I suspect it is when you can write more entirely out of yourself, inside the skin, heart, mind, and soul of a person who is not yourself, that a character becomes in his own right another human being on the page.
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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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Never think you've seen the last of anything.
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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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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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What we know about writing the novel is the novel.
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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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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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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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For the night was not impartial. No, the night loved some more than others, served some more than others.
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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.
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One place understood helps us understand all places better
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Every story teaches me how to write it. Unfortunately, it doesn't teach me how to write the next one.
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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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The fictional eye sees in, through, and around what is really there.
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Out of love you can speak with straight fury.
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One place comprehended can make us understand other places better.
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