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Stories Quotes by Eudora Welty
- Every story would be another story, and unrecognizable if it took up its characters and plot and happened somewhere else ... Fiction depends for its…
- To imagine yourself inside another person...is what a story writer does in every piece of work; it is his first step, and his last too,…
- A short story is confined to one mood, to which everything in the story pertains. Characters, setting, time, events, are all subject to the mood.…
- Long before I wrote stories, I listened for stories. Listening for them is something more acute than listening to them.
- Once you're into a story everything seems to apply-what you overhear on a city bus is exactly what your character would say on the page…
- 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…
- Long before I wrote stories, I listened for stories.
- 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,…
- 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…
- 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…
- Gardening is akin to writing stories. No experience could have taught me more about grief or flowers, about achieving survival by going, your fingers in…
More Stories Quotes
- Storytelling reveals meaning without committing the error of defining it. — Hannah Arendt
- I believe in anything that will engage the audience and make the story more effective. — J. J. Abrams
- Stories surge up out of nowhere, and if they feel compelling, you follow them. You let them unfold inside you and see… — Paul Auster
- Films and television and even comic books are churning out vast quantities of fictional narratives, and the public continues to swallow them… — Paul Auster
- I knew from the age of 16 that I wanted to be a writer because I just didn't think I could do… — Paul Auster
- Stories in which the destruction of society occurs are explorations of social fears and issues that filmmakers, novelists, playwrights, painters have been… — J. J. Abrams
- But human beings fall easily into despair, and from the very beginning we invented stories that enabled us to place our lives… — Karen Armstrong
- Storytelling is fine as long as you can encourage people to act on the stories. — Karen Armstrong
- For whatever reason, maybe it's because of my story, but people associate Livestrong with exercise and physical fitness, health and lifestyle choices… — Lance Armstrong
- Individual science fiction stories may seem as trivial as ever to the blinder critics and philosophers of today - but the core… — Isaac Asimov
- As we have seen, WikiLeaks is a robust organization. During my time in solitary confinement in the basement of a Victorian prison,… — Julian Assange
- In fact, I thought that Christianity was very a good and a very valuable thing for us. But after a while, I… — Chinua Achebe