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Every story teaches you how to write that story but not the next story.
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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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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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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People give pain, are callous and insensitive, empty and cruel...but place heals the hurt, soothes the outrage, fills the terrible vacuum that these human beings make.
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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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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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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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One place comprehended can make us understand other places better.
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At the time of writing, I don't write for my friends or myself either I write for it, for the pleasure of it.
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I think that as you learn more about writing you learn to be direct.
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Never think you've seen the last of anything.
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I believe in it, and I trust it too and treasure it above everything, the personal, the personal, the personal! I put my faith in it not only as the source, the ground of meaning in art, in life, but as the meaning itself.
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One place understood helps us understand all places better
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Time is anonymous when we give it a face, it's the same face the world over.
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Don't give anybody up. He stroked her. Or leave anybody out. Me and you both left her out today, and I'm ashamed for us. There just wasn't room in today for it ... He said, There's room for everything, and time for everybody, if you take your day the way it comes along and try not to be much later than you can help.
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It had been startling and disappointing to me to find out that story books had been written by people, that books were not natural wonders, coming of themselves like grass.
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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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I wanted to read immediately. The only fear was that of books coming to an end.
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Location pertains to feelings - feelings are bound up in place.
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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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