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Eudora Welty has 93 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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Beware of a man with manners.
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The writing of a novel is taking life as it already exists, not to report it but to make an object, toward…
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Integrity can be neither lost nor concealed nor faked nor quenched nor artificially come by nor outlived, nor, I believe, in the…
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Look for where the sky is brightest along the horizon. That reflects the nearest river. Strike out for a river and you…
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Every story would be another story, and unrecognizable if it took up its characters and plot and happened somewhere else ... Fiction…
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To imagine yourself inside another person...is what a story writer does in every piece of work; it is his first step, and…
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There's still a strange moment with every book when I move from the position of writer to the position of reader and…
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Dialogue has to show not only something about the speaker that is its own revelation, but also maybe something about the speaker…
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What we know about writing the novel is the novel.
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A short story is confined to one mood, to which everything in the story pertains. Characters, setting, time, events, are all subject…
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When they turned off, it was still early in the pink and green fields. The fumes of morning, sweet and bitter, sprang…
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The novelist works neither to correct nor to condone, not at all to comfort, but to make what's told alive.
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Houses, like people, have personalities, and, like the personalities of people, they are partly molded by all that has happened to them.
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As the skipping rope hit the pavement, so did the ball. As the rope curved over the head of the jumping child,…
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Any chance I had to get in front of people - amateur talent contests at movie houses like the Broadway, the president…
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I am not surprised that there are gambling houses, like so many snares laid for human avarice; like abysses where many a…
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Oversized houses, like oversized cars, seem to be a particularly American fixation.
— Susan Orlean
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Each day the storm clouds were opening like great purple flowers and pouring out their dark thunder. Each nightfall, the storm was…
— Eudora Welty
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What is this obsession people have with books? They put them in their houses like they're trophies. What do you need it…
— Jerry Seinfeld
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Houses, like people, are apt to become rather eccentric if left too much on their own; this house was the architectural equivalent…
— Susanna Clarke
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It's a very cheery thing to come into London by any of these lines which run high and allow you to look…
— Arthur Conan Doyle
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My guilty pleasure is I like to watch a lot of HGTV. I really like watching design shows about houses, like extreme…
— Taylor Schilling
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