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From Quotes by Eudora Welty
- There's still a strange moment with every book when I move from the position of writer to the position of reader and I suddenly see…
- The first act of insight is throw away the labels. In fiction, while we do not necessarily write about ourselves, we write out of ourselves,…
- For the source of the short story is usually lyrical. And all writers speak from, and speak to, emotions eternally the same in all of…
- Fantasy is no good unless the seed it springs from is a truth, a truth about human beings.
- From the first I was clamorous to learn ...
- 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…
- 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…
- A good snapshot stops a moment from running away.
- 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,…
- 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…
- 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…
- 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…
- 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…
- A whole tree of lightning stood in the sky. She kept looking out the window, suffused with the warmth from the fire and with the…
- A sheltered life can be a daring life as well. For all serious daring starts from within.
- I am a writer who came of a sheltered life. A sheltered life can be a daring life as well. For all serious daring starts…
- All serious daring starts from within.
- A good snapshot keeps a moment from running away.
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