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All good writers speak in honest voices and tell the truth.

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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To open up the new, to look back on the old may bring forth like discoveries in the practice of art.
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Characters take on life sometimes by luck, but I suspect it is when you can write more entirely out of yourself, inside the skin, heart, mind, and soul of a person who is not yourself, that a character becomes in his own right another human being on the page.
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Out of love you can speak with straight fury.
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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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Location pertains to feelings - feelings are bound up in place.
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If you haven't surprised yourself, you haven't written.
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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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To write honestly and with all our powers is the least we can do, and the most.
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Is there any sleeping person you can be entirely sure you have not misjudged?
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One place understood helps us understand all places better
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Write about what you don't know about what you know.
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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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Radio, sewing machine, bookends, ironing board and that great big piano lamp - peace, that's what I like. Butterbean vines planted all along the front where the strings are.
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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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Long before I wrote stories, I listened for stories. Listening for them is something more acute than listening to them.
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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.
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The mystery lies in the use of language to express human life.
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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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Southerners love a good tale. They are born reciters, great memory retainers, diary keepers, letter exchangers . . . great talkers.
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