Quote

To open up the new, to look back on the old may bring forth like discoveries in the practice of art.

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
Art
May
Back
Discoveries
Look
Forth
Looks
Discovery
Like
Bring
Open
Practice

More quotes by Eudora Welty

Image
I like the feeling of being able to confront an experience and resolve it as art.
Eudora Welty
Image
Long before I wrote stories, I listened for stories.
Eudora Welty
Image
Every story teaches you how to write that story but not the next story.
Eudora Welty
Image
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?
Eudora Welty
Image
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.
Eudora Welty
Image
it doesn t matter if it takes a long time getting there the point is to have a destination.
Eudora Welty
Image
The novelist works neither to correct nor to condone, not at all to comfort, but to make what's told alive.
Eudora Welty
Image
It had been startling and disappointing to me to find out that story books had been written by people, that books were not natural wonders, coming of themselves like grass.
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
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
Image
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
Eudora Welty
Image
What we know about writing the novel is the novel.
Eudora Welty
Image
Travel itself is part of some longer continuity.
Eudora Welty
Image
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.
Eudora Welty
Image
I think that as you learn more about writing you learn to be direct.
Eudora Welty
Image
Never think you've seen the last of anything.
Eudora Welty
Image
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!
Eudora Welty
Image
Location pertains to feelings - feelings are bound up in place.
Eudora Welty
Image
Passion is our ground, our island - do others exist?
Eudora Welty
Image
The first act of insight is throw away the labels.
Eudora Welty