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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.
Eudora Welty
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Eudora Welty
Age: 102 †
Born: 1909
Born: April 13
Died: 2011
Died: July 23
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I think that as you learn more about writing you learn to be direct.
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Never think you've seen the last of anything.
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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.
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To open up the new, to look back on the old may bring forth like discoveries in the practice of art.
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Passion is our ground, our island - do others exist?
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Is there any sleeping person you can be entirely sure you have not misjudged?
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The novelist works neither to correct nor to condone, not at all to comfort, but to make what's told alive.
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She read Dickens in the spirit in which she would have eloped with him.
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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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My main disappointment was always that a book had to end. And then what? But I don't think I was ever disappointed by the books. I must have been what any author would consider an ideal reader. I felt every pain and pleasure suffered or enjoyed by all the characters. Oh, but I identified!
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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.
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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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A good snapshot stops a moment from running away.
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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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Out of love you can speak with straight fury.
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Plots are ... what the writer sees with.
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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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