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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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Characters take on life sometimes by luck, but I suspect it is when you can write more entirely out of yourself, inside the skin, heart, mind, and soul of a person who is not yourself, that a character becomes in his own right another human being on the page.
Eudora Welty
Location pertains to feelings - feelings are bound up in place.
Eudora Welty
The challenge to writers today, I think, is not to disown any part of our heritage. Whatever our theme in writing, it is old and tried. Whatever our place, it has been visited by the stranger, it will never be new again. It is only the vision that can be new but that is enough.
Eudora Welty
What we know about writing the novel is the novel.
Eudora Welty
All good writers speak in honest voices and tell the truth.
Eudora Welty
If you haven't surprised yourself, you haven't written.
Eudora Welty
When I read, I hear what's on the page. I don't know whose voice it is, but some voice is reading to me, and when I write my own stories, I hear it, too.
Eudora Welty
The fictional eye sees in, through, and around what is really there.
Eudora Welty
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.
Eudora Welty
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.
Eudora Welty
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
Time is anonymous when we give it a face, it's the same face the world over.
Eudora Welty
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
Out of love you can speak with straight fury.
Eudora Welty
Passion is our ground, our island - do others exist?
Eudora Welty
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.
Eudora Welty
The novelist works neither to correct nor to condone, not at all to comfort, but to make what's told alive.
Eudora Welty
Beauty is not a means, not a way of furthering a thing in the world. It is a result it belongs to ordering, to form, to aftereffect.
Eudora Welty
For the night was not impartial. No, the night loved some more than others, served some more than others.
Eudora Welty
A thing is incredible, if ever, only after it is told -- returned to the world it came out of.
Eudora Welty