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What I do in the writing of any character is to try to enter into the mind, heart and skin of a human being who is not myself. It is the act of a writer's imagination that I set the most high.
Eudora Welty
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Eudora Welty
Age: 102 †
Born: 1909
Born: April 13
Died: 2011
Died: July 23
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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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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
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Every story teaches you how to write that story but not the next story.
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Location pertains to feelings - feelings are bound up in place.
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Write about what you don't know about what you know.
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Never think you've seen the last of anything.
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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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Writing fiction has developed in me an abiding respect for the unknown in a human lifetime and a sense of where to look for the threads, how to follow, how to connect, find in the thick of the tangle what clear line persists.
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Fiction shows us the past as well as the present moment in mortal light it is an art served by the indelibility of our memory, and one empowered by a sharp and prophetic awareness of what is ephemeral. It is by the ephemeral that our feeling is so strongly aroused for what endures.
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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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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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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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Insight doesn't happen often on the click of the moment, like a lucky snapshot, but comes in its own time and more slowly and from nowhere but within.
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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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I like the feeling of being able to confront an experience and resolve it as art.
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There is absolutely everything in great fiction but a clear answer.
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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.
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There's still a strange moment with every book when I move from the position of writer to the position of reader and I suddenly see my words with the eyes of the cold public. It gives me a terrible sense of exposure, as if I'd gotten sunburned.
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