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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
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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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I like the feeling of being able to confront an experience and resolve it as art.
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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 thing is incredible, if ever, only after it is told -- returned to the world it came out of.
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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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What we know about writing the novel is the novel.
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Plots are ... what the writer sees with.
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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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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.
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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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One place comprehended can make us understand other places better.
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Passion is our ground, our island - do others exist?
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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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All good writers speak in honest voices and tell the truth.
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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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it doesn t matter if it takes a long time getting there the point is to have a destination.
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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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I think that as you learn more about writing you learn to be direct.
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Relationship is a pervading and changing mystery... brutal or lovely, the mystery waits for people wherever they go, whatever extreme they run to.
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Out of love you can speak with straight fury.
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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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