All Eudora Welty Quotes
- The excursion is the same when you go looking for your sorrow as when you go looking for your joy. Aging
- Writing a story or a novel is one way of discovering sequence in experience, of stumbling upon cause and effect in the happenings of a… Cause
- Each day the storm clouds were opening like great purple flowers and pouring out their dark thunder. Each nightfall, the storm was laid down on… Burden
- Write about what you don't know about what you know. Funny
- People give pain, are callous and insensitive, empty and cruel...but place heals the hurt, soothes the outrage, fills the terrible vacuum that these human beings… Beings
- Indeed, learning to write may be part of learning to read. For all I know, writing comes out of a superior devotion to reading. All
- My main disappointment was always that a book had to end. And then what? But I don't think I was ever disappointed by the books.… All
- All experience is an enrichment rather than an impoverishment. 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,… All
- Art is never the voice of a country, it is an even more precious thing, the voice of the individual, doing its best to speak,… Any
- Suppose you meet me in the woods. Funny
- She read Dickens in the same spirit she would have eloped with him. Dickens
- 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 early… Acute
- Characters take on life sometimes by luck, but I suspect it is when you can write more entirely out of yourself, inside the skin, heart,… Another Human
- I read library books as fast as I could go, rushing them home in the basket of my bicycle. From the minute I reached our… Basket
- Since we must and do write each our own way, we may during actual writing get more lasting instruction not from another's work, whatever its… Actual
- I cannot remember a time when I was not in love with them--with the books themselves, cover and binding and the paper they were printed… Arms
- The mystery in how little we know of other people is no greater than the mystery of how much, Laurel thought. Greater
- it doesn t matter if it takes a long time getting there; the point is to have a destination. Destination
- Children, like animals use all their senses to discover the world. Then artists come along and discover it the same way...Or now and then we'll… All
- Laurel could not see her face but only the back of her neck, the most vulnerable part of anybody, and she thought: Is there any… Any
- One place understood helps us understand all places better All
- But how much better, in any case, to wonder than not to wonder, to dance with astonishment and go spinning in praise, than not to… All
- It is our inward journey that leads us through time – forward or back, seldom in a straight line, most often spiraling. Each of us… Changing
- There is absolutely everything in great fiction but a clear answer. Absolutely