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I think that as you learn more about writing you learn to be direct.

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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One place understood helps us understand all places better
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The fictional eye sees in, through, and around what is really there.
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Long before I wrote stories, I listened for stories.
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Once you're into a story everything seems to apply-what you overhear on a city bus is exactly what your character would say on the page you're writing. Wherever you go, you meet part of your story.
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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.
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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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Through travel I first became aware of the outside world it was through travel that I found my own introspective way into becoming a part of it.
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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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Greater than scene is situation. Greater than situation is implication. Greater than all of these is a single, entire human being, who will never be confined in any frame.
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Out of love you can speak with straight fury.
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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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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.
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There is absolutely everything in great fiction but a clear answer.
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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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For the night was not impartial. No, the night loved some more than others, served some more than others.
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Writing is an expression of the writer's own peculiar personality, could not help being so. Yet in reading great works one feels that the finished piece transcends the personal. All writers great and small must sometimes have felt that they have become part of what they wrote even more than it still remains a part of them.
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Passion is our ground, our island - do others exist?
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