Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
Every story teaches me how to write it. Unfortunately, it doesn't teach me how to write the next one.
Eudora Welty
Share
Change background
T
T
T
Change font
Original
TAGS & TOPICS
Eudora Welty
Age: 102 †
Born: 1909
Born: April 13
Died: 2011
Died: July 23
Author
Autobiographer
Literary Critic
Novelist
Photographer
Writer
Jackson
Mississippi
Eudora Alice Welty
Stories
Writing
Teaches
Every
Unfortunately
Teach
Story
Write
Next
Doesn
More quotes by Eudora Welty
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
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.
Eudora Welty
At the time of writing, I don't write for my friends or myself either I write for it, for the pleasure of it.
Eudora Welty
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.
Eudora Welty
Location pertains to feelings - feelings are bound up in place.
Eudora Welty
it doesn t matter if it takes a long time getting there the point is to have a destination.
Eudora Welty
Learning stamps you with its moments. Childhood's learning is made up of moments. It isn't steady. It's a pulse.
Eudora Welty
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.
Eudora Welty
I like the feeling of being able to confront an experience and resolve it as art.
Eudora Welty
One place comprehended can make us understand other places better.
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
What we know about writing the novel is the novel.
Eudora Welty
All good writers speak in honest voices and tell the truth.
Eudora Welty
If you haven't surprised yourself, you haven't written.
Eudora Welty
Gardening is akin to writing stories. No experience could have taught me more about grief or flowers, about achieving survival by going, your fingers in the ground, the limit of physical exhaustion.
Eudora Welty
Every story teaches you how to write that story but not the next story.
Eudora Welty
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!
Eudora Welty
I get a moral satisfaction out of putting things together.
Eudora Welty
A good snapshot stops a moment from running away.
Eudora Welty
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
