“His (my father's) general belief in life's well-being worked either way. 'Have you ever had it before? You have? It's not going… — Eudora Welty Copy Share Image
“My father knew our way mile by mile; by day or by night, he knew where we were. Everything that changed under… — Eudora Welty Copy Share Image
“She (my mother) could still recite them (the poems) in full when she was lying helpless and nearly blind, in her bed,… — Eudora Welty Copy Share Image
“She (my mother) stood always prepared in herself to challenge the world in our place. She did indeed tend to make the… — Eudora Welty Copy Share Image
“When my mother would tell me that she wanted me to have something because she as a child had never had it,… — Eudora Welty Copy Share Image
“I live in gratitude to my parents for initiating me--and as early as I begged for it, without keeping me waiting--into knowledge… — Eudora Welty Copy Share Image
“Even as we grew up, my mother could not help imposing herself between her children and whatever it was they might take… — Eudora Welty Copy Share Image
My mother read secondarily for information; she sank as a hedonist into novels. She read Dickens in the spirit in which she… — Eudora Welty Copy Share Image
When I was a child and the snow fell, my mother always rushed to the kitchen and made snow ice cream and… — Eudora Welty Copy Share Image
“On Sundays, Presbyterians were not allowed to eat hot food or read the funny papers or travel the shortest journey; parents believed… — Eudora Welty Copy Share Image
“It was examinations (in school) that drove my wits away, as all emergencies do. Being expected to measure up was paralysing. It… — Eudora Welty Copy Share Image
“My father did not bring it up, but of course I knew that he had another reason to worry about my decision… — Eudora Welty Copy Share Image
“When my mother would tell me that she wanted me to have something because she as a child had never had it,… — Eudora Welty Copy Share Image
“The journey took about a week each way, and each day had my parents both in its grip. Riding behind my father,… — Eudora Welty Copy Share Image
Ever since I was first read to, then started reading to myself, there has never been a line read that I didn't… — Eudora Welty Copy Share Image
“Through learning at my later date things I hadn't known, or had escaped or possibly feared realizing, about my parents - and… — Eudora Welty Copy Share Image
“Evere since I was first to read, then started reading to myself, there has never been a line read that I didn't… — Eudora Welty Copy Share Image
“It was entirely taken for granted that there wasn't any lying in our family, and I was advanced in adolescence before I… — Eudora Welty Copy Share Image
“She (my mother) could still recite them (the poems) in full when she was lying helpless and nearly blind, in her bed, an old… — Eudora Welty Copy Share Image
Long before I wrote stories, I listened for stories. Listening for them is something more acute than listening to them. I suppose it’s an… — Eudora Welty Copy Share Image
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… — Eudora Welty Copy Share Image
“Two by two, I read library books as fast as I could go, rushing them home in the basket of my bicycle. From the… — Eudora Welty Copy Share Image
“When somebody, no matter who, gives everything, it makes people feel ashamed for him.” — Eudora Welty Copy Share Image
“Daydreaming had started me on the way; but story writing, once I was truly in its grip, took me and shook me awake.” — Eudora Welty Copy Share Image
“All children in those small-town, unhurried days had a vast inner life going on in the movies. Children were allowed to go without chaperone… — Eudora Welty Copy Share Image
“At the sting in her eyes, she remembered for him that there must be no tears in his.” — Eudora Welty Copy Share Image
“We do need to bring to our writing, over and over again, all the abundance we possess. To be able, to be ready, to… — Eudora Welty Copy Share Image
“When one of us (children) caught measles or whooping cough and we were isolated in bad upstairs, we wrote notes to each other perhaps… — Eudora Welty Copy Share Image
“She (my mother) stood always prepared in herself to challenge the world in our place. She did indeed tend to make the world look… — Eudora Welty Copy Share Image
