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To write honestly and with all our powers is the least we can do, and the most.
Eudora Welty
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Eudora Welty
Age: 102 †
Born: 1909
Born: April 13
Died: 2011
Died: July 23
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Eudora Alice Welty
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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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The first thing we see about a short story is its mystery. And in the best short stories, we return at the last to see mystery again
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No art ever came out of not risking your neck.
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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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Relationship is a pervading and changing mystery... brutal or lovely, the mystery waits for people wherever they go, whatever extreme they run to.
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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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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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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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I wanted to read immediately. The only fear was that of books coming to an end.
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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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Every story teaches you how to write that story but not the next story.
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Plots are ... what the writer sees with.
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The fictional eye sees in, through, and around what is really there.
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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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The mystery lies in the use of language to express human life.
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I get a moral satisfaction out of putting things together.
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At the time of writing, I don't write for my friends or myself either I write for it, for the pleasure of it.
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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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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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