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I get a moral satisfaction out of putting things together.

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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Write about what you don't know about what you know.
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Location pertains to feelings - feelings are bound up in place.
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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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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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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.
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A whole tree of lightning stood in the sky. She kept looking out the window, suffused with the warmth from the fire and with the pity and beauty and power of her death. The thunder rolled.
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Never think you've seen the last of anything.
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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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No art ever came out of not risking your neck.
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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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Travel itself is part of some longer continuity.
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One place understood helps us understand all places better
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There is absolutely everything in great fiction but a clear answer.
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