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I like the feeling of being able to confront an experience and resolve it as art.

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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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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She read Dickens in the spirit in which she would have eloped with him.
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Never think you've seen the last of anything.
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All good writers speak in honest voices and tell the truth.
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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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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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Travel itself is part of some longer continuity.
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Once you're into a story everything seems to apply-what you overhear on a city bus is exactly what your character would say on the page you're writing. Wherever you go, you meet part of your story.
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Beware of a man with manners.
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What we know about writing the novel is the novel.
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No art ever came out of not risking your neck.
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Plots are ... what the writer sees with.
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Is there any sleeping person you can be entirely sure you have not misjudged?
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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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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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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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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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