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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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Never think you've seen the last of anything.
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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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it doesn t matter if it takes a long time getting there the point is to have a destination.
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I cannot remember a time when I was not in love with them--with the books themselves, cover and binding and the paper they were printed on, with their smell and their weight and with their possession in my arms, captured and carried off to myself.
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Is there any sleeping person you can be entirely sure you have not misjudged?
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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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One place understood helps us understand all places better
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I like the feeling of being able to confront an experience and resolve it as art.
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How can you go out on a limb if you do not know your own tree? No art ever came out of not risking your neck. And risk--experiment--is a considerable part of the joy of doing.
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No art ever came out of not risking your neck.
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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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If you haven't surprised yourself, you haven't written.
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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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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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Every story teaches you how to write that story but not the next story.
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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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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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She read Dickens in the spirit in which she would have eloped with him.
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I get a moral satisfaction out of putting things together.
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Write about what you don't know about what you know.
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