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Insight doesn't happen often on the click of the moment, like a lucky snapshot, but comes in its own time and more slowly and from nowhere but within.
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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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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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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For the night was not impartial. No, the night loved some more than others, served some more than others.
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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.
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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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One place understood helps us understand all places better
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it doesn t matter if it takes a long time getting there the point is to have a destination.
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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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The first act of insight is throw away the labels.
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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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