All Eudora Welty Quotes
- Making reality real is art's responsibility. Art
- Human life is fiction's only theme. Fiction
- To open up the new, to look back on the old may bring forth like discoveries in the practice of art. Art
- Long before I wrote stories, I listened for stories. Fiction
- Fantasy is no good unless the seed it springs from is a truth, a truth about human beings. Beings
- Learning stamps you with its moments. Childhood's learning is made up of moments. It isn't steady. It's a pulse. Childhood
- From the first I was clamorous to learn ... Clamorous
- Time is anonymous; when we give it a face, it's the same face the world over. Anonymous
- Insight doesn't happen often on the click of the moment, like a lucky snapshot, but comes in its own time and more slowly and from… Click
- The first act of insight is throw away the labels. Act
- Writers and travelers are mesmerized alike by knowing of their destinations. Alike
- 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,… Aroused
- No blur of inexactness, no cloud of vagueness, is allowable in good writing; from the first seeing to the last putting down, there must be… Allowable
- 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… Action
- Both reading and writing are experiences--lifelong-- in the course of which we who encounter words used in certain ways are persuaded by them to be… Both
- 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… Any
- It's the form it takes when it comes out the other side, of course, that gives a story something unique--its life. The story, in the… Arrived
- Relationship is a pervading and changing mystery... brutal or lovely, the mystery waits for people wherever they go, whatever extreme they run to. Brutal
- 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,… Beauty
- The events in our lives happen in a sequence in time, but in their significance to ourselves they find their own order the continuous thread… Continuous
- A good snapshot stops a moment from running away. From
- 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… Aware
- Greater than scene is situation. Greater than situation is implication. Greater than all of these is a single, entire human being, who will never be… All
- It had been startling and disappointing to me to find out that story books had been written by people, that books were not natural wonders,… Been
- Never think you've seen the last of anything. Inspirational