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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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In a word, neither death, nor exile, nor pain, nor anything of this kind is the real cause of our doing or…
— Epictetus
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Glad and merry and sweet is the blessed and lovely demeanour of our Lord towards our souls, for he saw us always…
— Julian of Norwich
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God is at the tip of our scalpels, our screwdrivers, our computer terminals, our dust rags, our vacuum cleaners, our pencils and…
— Sue Monk Kidd
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If our inward griefs were seen written on our brow, how many would be pitied who are now envied! [It., Se a…
— Pietro Metastasio
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Doubtless almost any intense emotion may open our 'inward eye' to the beauty of reality. Falling in love appears to do it…
— Margaret Prescott Montague
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Thinking about time is to acknowledge two contradictory certainties: that our outward lives are governed by the seasons and the clock; that…
— Jeanette Winterson
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It is our inward journey that leads us through time – forward or back, seldom in a straight line, most often spiraling.…
— Eudora Welty
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The memory of an absent person shines in the deepest recesses of the heart, shining the more brightly the more wholly its…
— Victor Hugo
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From innumerable complexities we must grow to simplicity; we must become simple in our inward life and in our outward needs.
— Jiddu Krishnamurti
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