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
What I do in the writing of any character is to try to enter into the mind, heart and skin of a… — Eudora Welty Copy Share Image
At the time of writing, I don't write for my friends or myself either; I write for it, for the pleasure of… — Eudora Welty Copy Share Image
Every story teaches you how to write that story but not the next story. — Eudora Welty Copy Share Image
“What I do in writing of any character is to try to enter into the mind, heart, and skin of a human… — Eudora Welty Copy Share Image
Since we must and do write each our own way, we may during actual writing get more lasting instruction not from another's… — Eudora Welty Copy Share Image
“Art, though, is never the voice of a country; it is an even more precious thing, the voice of the individual, doing… — Eudora Welty Copy Share Image
The first act of insight is throw away the labels. In fiction, while we do not necessarily write about ourselves, we write… — Eudora Welty Copy Share Image
There's still a strange moment with every book when I move from the position of writer to the position of reader and… — 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
I'm not very eloquent about things like this, but I think that writing and photography go together. I don't mean that they… — 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
The challenge to writers today, I think, is not to disown any part of our heritage. Whatever our theme in writing, it… — Eudora Welty Copy Share Image
“There was one story that anger certainly lit the fuse of. In the 1960's, in my home town of Jackson, the civil… — Eudora Welty Copy Share Image
“A conscious act grew out of this by the time I began writing stories: getting my distance, a prerequisite of my understanding… — Eudora Welty Copy Share Image
“I learned from the age of two or three, that any room in our house, at any time of day, was there… — 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
“Taking trips tore all of us up inside, for they seemed, each journey away from home, something that might have been less… — Eudora Welty Copy Share Image
Writing is an expression of the writer's own peculiar personality, could not help being so. Yet in reading great works one feels… — Eudora Welty Copy Share Image
“I don't know whether I could do either one, reading or writing, without the other” — Eudora Welty Copy Share Image
“The camera was a hand-held auxiliary of wanting-to-know. It had more than information and accuracy to teach me. I learned in the… — 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
“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
