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Life Quotes by Eudora Welty
- The writing of a novel is taking life as it already exists, not to report it but to make an object, toward the end that…
- Every story would be another story, and unrecognizable if it took up its characters and plot and happened somewhere else ... Fiction depends for its…
- I believe in it, and I trust it too and treasure it above everything, the personal, the personal, the personal! I put my faith in…
- 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,…
- Human life is fiction's only theme.
- 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…
- 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…
- 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…
- 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…
- 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,…
- 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…
- Making reality real is art's responsibility. It is a practical assignment, then, a self-assignment: to achieve, by a cultivated sensitivity for observing life, a capacity…
- 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…
More Life Quotes
- Storytelling reveals meaning without committing the error of defining it. — Hannah Arendt
- Culture relates to objects and is a phenomenon of the world; entertainment relates to people and is a phenomenon of life. — Hannah Arendt
- We have almost succeeded in leveling all human activities to the common denominator of securing the necessities of life and providing for… — Hannah Arendt
- I do think the heart can balance out the mind, if your heart is in a good place it can give you… — Alexis Arguello
- I find that it's hard to fully examine one's life and not have faith be part of the discussion. — J. J. Abrams
- Wise people, even though all laws were abolished, would still lead the same life. — Aristophanes
- Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies. — Aristotle
- Friendship is a single soul dwelling in two bodies. — Aristotle
- We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit. — Aristotle
- Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them life, those… — Aristotle
- Happiness depends upon ourselves. — Aristotle
- I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who conquers his enemies; for the hardest victory is over self. — Aristotle