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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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Southerners love a good tale. They are born reciters, great memory retainers, diary keepers, letter exchangers . . . great talkers.
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The mystery lies in the use of language to express human life.
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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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To write honestly and with all our powers is the least we can do, and the most.
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it doesn t matter if it takes a long time getting there the point is to have a destination.
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I like the feeling of being able to confront an experience and resolve it as art.
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One place comprehended can make us understand other places better.
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Location pertains to feelings - feelings are bound up in place.
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Relationship is a pervading and changing mystery... brutal or lovely, the mystery waits for people wherever they go, whatever extreme they run to.
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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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I wanted to read immediately. The only fear was that of books coming to an end.
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Daydreaming had started me on the way but story writing once I was truly in its grip, took me and shook me awake.
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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.
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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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A good snapshot stops a moment from running away.
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Greater than scene is situation. Greater than situation is implication. Greater than all of these is a single, entire human being, who will never be confined in any frame.
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Never think you've seen the last of anything.
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No blur of inexactness, no cloud of vagueness, is allowable in good writing from the first seeing to the last putting down, there must be steady lucidity and uncompromise of purpose.
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She read Dickens in the spirit in which she would have eloped with him.
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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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