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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
Eudora Welty
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Eudora Welty
Age: 102 †
Born: 1909
Born: April 13
Died: 2011
Died: July 23
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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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Write about what you don't know about what you know.
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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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Ah, I'm a woman that's been clear around the world in my rocking chair, and I tell you we all get surprises now and then.
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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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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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What we know about writing the novel is the novel.
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Look for where the sky is brightest along the horizon. That reflects the nearest river. Strike out for a river and you will find habitation.
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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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I think that as you learn more about writing you learn to be direct.
Eudora Welty
Long before I wrote stories, I listened for stories.
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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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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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A thing is incredible, if ever, only after it is told -- returned to the world it came out of.
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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.
Eudora Welty
Is there any sleeping person you can be entirely sure you have not misjudged?
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Location pertains to feelings - feelings are bound up in place.
Eudora Welty
The mystery lies in the use of language to express human life.
Eudora Welty
To open up the new, to look back on the old may bring forth like discoveries in the practice of art.
Eudora Welty
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
