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Writer Quotes by Eudora Welty
- 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,…
- There's still a strange moment with every book when I move from the position of writer to the position of reader and I suddenly see…
- 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…
- 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…
- I am a writer who came of a sheltered life. A sheltered life can be a daring life as well. For all serious daring starts…
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