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Own Quotes by Eudora Welty
- Dialogue has to show not only something about the speaker that is its own revelation, but also maybe something about the speaker that he doesn't…
- 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,…
- 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…
- 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…
- Great fiction shows us not how to conduct our behavior but how to feel. Eventually, it may show us how to face our feelings and…
- 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,…
- 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…
- Writing is an expression of the writer's own peculiar personality, could not help being so. Yet in reading great works one feels that the finished…
- We are the breakers of our own hearts
More Own Quotes
- Power and violence are opposites; where the one rules absolutely, the other is absent. Violence appears where power is in jeopardy, but… — Hannah Arendt
- I am a free man. I do not need to copy Petrarca or Boccaccio. My own genius is enough. Let others worry… — Pietro Aretino
- Mothers are fonder than fathers of their children because they are more certain they are their own. — Aristotle
- Men create gods after their own image, not only with regard to their form but with regard to their mode of life. — Aristotle
- The generality of men are naturally apt to be swayed by fear rather than reverence, and to refrain from evil rather because… — Aristotle
- I believe that the whole idea of the consumer society is tottering. We've kept ourselves going by producing more and more goods,… — Paul Auster
- I was always interested in French poetry sort of as a sideline to my own work, I was translating contemporary French poets.… — Paul Auster
- Punk has always been about doing things your own way. What it represents for me is ultimate freedom and a sense of… — Billie Joe Armstrong
- I think it's your own choice if you turn from an angry young man to a bitter, old bastard. — Billie Joe Armstrong
- I like being a strong, independent woman, and to be honest, I was never afraid to be on my own. — Dido Armstrong
- We are addicted to our egotism, our likes and dislikes and prejudices, and depend upon them for our own sense of identity. — Karen Armstrong
- And above all things, never think that you're not good enough yourself. A man should never think that. My belief is that… — Isaac Asimov