Long before I wrote stories, I listened for stories. Listening for them is something more acute than listening to them. — Eudora Welty Copy Share Image
Every story teaches you how to write that story but not the next story. — Eudora Welty Copy Share Image
The first thing we see about a short story is its mystery. And in the best short stories, we return at the… — 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… — Eudora Welty Copy Share Image
Every story teaches me how to write it. Unfortunately, it doesn't teach me how to write the next one. — Eudora Welty Copy Share Image
To imagine yourself inside another person...is what a story writer does in every piece of work; it is his first step, and… — 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… — Eudora Welty Copy Share Image
For the source of the short story is usually lyrical. And all writers speak from, and speak to, emotions eternally the same… — Eudora Welty Copy Share Image
Every story would be another story, and unrecognizable if it took up its characters and plot and happened somewhere else ... Fiction… — Eudora Welty Copy Share Image
Gardening is akin to writing stories. No experience could have taught me more about grief or flowers, about achieving survival by going,… — Eudora Welty Copy Share Image
My own words, when I am at work on a story, I hear too as they go, in the same voice that… — 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… — Eudora Welty Copy Share Image
It had been startling and disappointing to me to find out that story books had been written by people, that books were… — Eudora Welty Copy Share Image
“It is not for nothing that an ominous feeling often attaches itself to a procession. In films and stories we see spectacles… — Eudora Welty Copy Share Image
It's the form it takes when it comes out the other side, of course, that gives a story something unique--its life. The… — 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
I learned quickly enough when to click the shutter, but what I was becoming aware of more slowly was a story-writer's truth:… — Eudora Welty Copy Share Image
When I read, I hear what's on the page. I don't know whose voice it is, but some voice is reading to… — Eudora Welty Copy Share Image
A short story is confined to one mood, to which everything in the story pertains. Characters, setting, time, events, are all subject… — Eudora Welty Copy Share Image
“What discoveries I made in the course of writing stories all begin with the particular, never the general. They are mostly hindsight:… — 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
