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The first act of insight is throw away the labels.

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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To open up the new, to look back on the old may bring forth like discoveries in the practice of art.
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All good writers speak in honest voices and tell the truth.
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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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My own words, when I am at work on a story, I hear too as they go, in the same voice that I hear when I read in books. When I write and the sound of it comes back to my ears, then I act to make changes. I have always trusted this voice.
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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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What we know about writing the novel is the novel.
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The fictional eye sees in, through, and around what is really there.
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Out of love you can speak with straight fury.
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A short story is confined to one mood, to which everything in the story pertains. Characters, setting, time, events, are all subject to the mood. And you can try more ephemeral, more fleeting things in a story - you can work more by suggestion - than in a novel. Less is resolved, more is suggested, perhaps.
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I like the feeling of being able to confront an experience and resolve it as art.
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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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Ah, I'm a woman that's been clear around the world in my rocking chair, and I tell you we all get surprises now and then.
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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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I think that as you learn more about writing you learn to be direct.
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Every story teaches me how to write it. Unfortunately, it doesn't teach me how to write the next one.
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Time is anonymous when we give it a face, it's the same face the world over.
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Write about what you don't know about what you know.
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There is absolutely everything in great fiction but a clear answer.
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The events in our lives happen in a sequence in time, but in their significance to ourselves they find their own order the continuous thread of revelation.
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Beware of a man with manners.
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