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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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Never think you've seen the last of anything.
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Location pertains to feelings - feelings are bound up in place.
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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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The challenge to writers today, I think, is not to disown any part of our heritage. Whatever our theme in writing, it is old and tried. Whatever our place, it has been visited by the stranger, it will never be new again. It is only the vision that can be new but that is enough.
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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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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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Write about what you don't know about what you know.
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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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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!
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Every story would be another story, and unrecognizable if it took up its characters and plot and happened somewhere else ... Fiction depends for its life on place. Place is the crossroads of circumstance, the proving ground of, What happened? Who's here? Who's coming?
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Look for where the sky is brightest along the horizon. That reflects the nearest river. Strike out for a river and you will find habitation.
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Through travel I first became aware of the outside world it was through travel that I found my own introspective way into becoming a part of it.
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I like the feeling of being able to confront an experience and resolve it as art.
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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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One place understood helps us understand all places better
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I wanted to read immediately. The only fear was that of books coming to an end.
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I think that as you learn more about writing you learn to be direct.
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One place comprehended can make us understand other places better.
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Plots are ... what the writer sees with.
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A thing is incredible, if ever, only after it is told -- returned to the world it came out of.
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