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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.

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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Great fiction shows us not how to conduct our behavior but how to feel. Eventually, it may show us how to face our feelings and face our actions and to have new inklings about what they mean. A good novel of any year can initiate us into our own new experience.
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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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A good snapshot stops a moment from running away.
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To write honestly and with all our powers is the least we can do, and the most.
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All good writers speak in honest voices and tell the truth.
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I like the feeling of being able to confront an experience and resolve it as art.
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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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Every story teaches me how to write it. Unfortunately, it doesn't teach me how to write the next one.
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Southerners love a good tale. They are born reciters, great memory retainers, diary keepers, letter exchangers . . . great talkers.
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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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No art ever came out of not risking your neck.
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If you haven't surprised yourself, you haven't written.
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Learning stamps you with its moments. Childhood's learning is made up of moments. It isn't steady. It's a pulse.
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The mystery lies in the use of language to express human life.
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She read Dickens in the spirit in which she would have eloped with him.
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