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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.
Eudora Welty
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Eudora Welty
Age: 102 †
Born: 1909
Born: April 13
Died: 2011
Died: July 23
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Writing is an expression of the writer's own peculiar personality, could not help being so. Yet in reading great works one feels that the finished piece transcends the personal. All writers great and small must sometimes have felt that they have become part of what they wrote even more than it still remains a part of them.
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Every story teaches you how to write that story but not the next story.
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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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To write honestly and with all our powers is the least we can do, and the most.
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The mystery lies in the use of language to express human life.
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Out of love you can speak with straight fury.
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I like the feeling of being able to confront an experience and resolve it as art.
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Fiction shows us the past as well as the present moment in mortal light it is an art served by the indelibility of our memory, and one empowered by a sharp and prophetic awareness of what is ephemeral. It is by the ephemeral that our feeling is so strongly aroused for what endures.
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Plots are ... what the writer sees with.
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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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The fictional eye sees in, through, and around what is really there.
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Beauty is not a means, not a way of furthering a thing in the world. It is a result it belongs to ordering, to form, to aftereffect.
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The first thing we see about a short story is its mystery. And in the best short stories, we return at the last to see mystery again
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Great fiction shows us not how to conduct our behavior but how to feel. Eventually, it may show us how to face our feelings and face our actions and to have new inklings about what they mean. A good novel of any year can initiate us into our own new experience.
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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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There is absolutely everything in great fiction but a clear answer.
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