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Out of love you can speak with straight fury.

Eudora Welty

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Eudora Welty
Age: 102 †
Born: 1909
Born: April 13
Died: 2011
Died: July 23
Author
Autobiographer
Literary Critic
Novelist
Photographer
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Jackson
Mississippi
Eudora Alice Welty
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Fury
Straight
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Love

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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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I wanted to read immediately. The only fear was that of books coming to an end.
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She read Dickens in the spirit in which she would have eloped with him.
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I like the feeling of being able to confront an experience and resolve it as art.
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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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The mystery lies in the use of language to express human life.
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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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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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Is there any sleeping person you can be entirely sure you have not misjudged?
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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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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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The fictional eye sees in, through, and around what is really there.
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I get a moral satisfaction out of putting things together.
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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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Long before I wrote stories, I listened for stories. Listening for them is something more acute than listening to them.
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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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To imagine yourself inside another person...is what a story writer does in every piece of work it is his first step, and his last too, I suppose.
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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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One place understood helps us understand all places better
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Plots are ... what the writer sees with.
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