Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
Daydreaming had started me on the way but story writing once I was truly in its grip, took me and shook me awake.
Eudora Welty
Share
Change background
T
T
T
Change font
Original
TAGS & TOPICS
Eudora Welty
Age: 102 †
Born: 1909
Born: April 13
Died: 2011
Died: July 23
Author
Autobiographer
Literary Critic
Novelist
Photographer
Writer
Jackson
Mississippi
Eudora Alice Welty
Stories
Daydreaming
Writing
Grip
Way
Shook
Awake
Truly
Took
Started
Story
More quotes by Eudora Welty
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.
Eudora Welty
A thing is incredible, if ever, only after it is told -- returned to the world it came out of.
Eudora Welty
Long before I wrote stories, I listened for stories.
Eudora Welty
I wanted to read immediately. The only fear was that of books coming to an end.
Eudora Welty
To write honestly and with all our powers is the least we can do, and the most.
Eudora Welty
Never think you've seen the last of anything.
Eudora Welty
Travel itself is part of some longer continuity.
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
Out of love you can speak with straight fury.
Eudora Welty
The mystery lies in the use of language to express human life.
Eudora Welty
Beware of a man with manners.
Eudora Welty
One place understood helps us understand all places better
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 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
One place comprehended can make us understand other places better.
Eudora Welty
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.
Eudora Welty
She read Dickens in the spirit in which she would have eloped with him.
Eudora Welty
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.
Eudora Welty
I like the feeling of being able to confront an experience and resolve it as art.
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
