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Out Quotes by Eudora Welty
- Look for where the sky is brightest along the horizon. That reflects the nearest river. Strike out for a river and you will find habitation.
- No art ever came out of not risking your neck.
- 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…
- How can you go out on a limb if you do not know your own tree? No art ever came out of not risking your…
- 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…
- 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,…
- 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…
- Indeed, learning to write may be part of learning to read. For all I know, writing comes out of a superior devotion to reading.
- 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…
- 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,…
- Don't give anybody up. . . or leave anybody out. . . . There's room for everything, and time for everybody, if you take your…
- 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…
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