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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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Writing is an expression of the writer's own peculiar personality, could not help being so. Yet in reading great works one feels…
— Eudora Welty
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But in reading great literature I become a thousand men and yet remain myself. Like the night sky in the Greek poem,…
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Reading great dialogue as an actor is such a rare privilege.
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