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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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Long before I wrote stories, I listened for stories. Listening for them is something more acute than listening to them.
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Location pertains to feelings - feelings are bound up in place.
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No blur of inexactness, no cloud of vagueness, is allowable in good writing from the first seeing to the last putting down, there must be steady lucidity and uncompromise of purpose.
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Gardening is akin to writing stories. No experience could have taught me more about grief or flowers, about achieving survival by going, your fingers in the ground, the limit of physical exhaustion.
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Writing a story or a novel is one way of discovering sequence in experience, of stumbling upon cause and effect in the happenings of a writer's own life.
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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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One place understood helps us understand all places better
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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.
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No art ever came out of not risking your neck.
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Beware of a man with manners.
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Every story teaches you how to write that story but not the next story.
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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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Passion is our ground, our island - do others exist?
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Writing fiction has developed in me an abiding respect for the unknown in a human lifetime and a sense of where to look for the threads, how to follow, how to connect, find in the thick of the tangle what clear line persists.
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I like the feeling of being able to confront an experience and resolve it as art.
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Fiction shows us the past as well as the present moment in mortal light it is an art served by the indelibility of our memory, and one empowered by a sharp and prophetic awareness of what is ephemeral. It is by the ephemeral that our feeling is so strongly aroused for what endures.
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Write about what you don't know about what you know.
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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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There is absolutely everything in great fiction but a clear answer.
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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.
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