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Long before I wrote stories, I listened for stories. Listening for them is something more acute than listening to them.
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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The fictional eye sees in, through, and around what is really there.
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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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The mystery lies in the use of language to express human life.
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She read Dickens in the spirit in which she would have eloped with him.
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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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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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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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There is absolutely everything in great fiction but a clear answer.
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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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Passion is our ground, our island - do others exist?
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I get a moral satisfaction out of putting things together.
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If you haven't surprised yourself, you haven't written.
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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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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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I like the feeling of being able to confront an experience and resolve it as art.
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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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Plots are ... what the writer sees with.
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When I read, I hear what's on the page. I don't know whose voice it is, but some voice is reading to me, and when I write my own stories, I hear it, too.
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