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Writing Quotes by Eudora Welty
- The writing of a novel is taking life as it already exists, not to report it but to make an object, toward the end that…
- 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…
- 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…
- What we know about writing the novel is the novel.
- To write honestly and with all our powers is the least we can do, and the most.
- No art ever came out of not risking your neck.
- 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…
- 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,…
- Writing fiction has developed in me an abiding respect for the unknown in a human lifetime and a sense of where to look for the…
- Writers and travelers are mesmerized alike by knowing of their destinations.
- Fiction shows us the past as well as the present moment in mortal light; it is an art served by the indelibility of our memory,…
- No blur of inexactness, no cloud of vagueness, is allowable in good writing; from the first seeing to the last putting down, there must be…
- Both reading and writing are experiences--lifelong-- in the course of which we who encounter words used in certain ways are persuaded by them to be…
- The challenge to writers today, I think, is not to disown any part of our heritage. Whatever our theme in writing, it is old and…
- 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…
- Write about what you don't know about what you know.
- Indeed, learning to write may be part of learning to read. For all I know, writing comes out of a superior devotion to reading.
- 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,…
- 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…
- 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…
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- Storytelling reveals meaning without committing the error of defining it. — Hannah Arendt
- Writing makes you feel that there is a reason to go on living. If I couldn't write, I would stop breathing. — Paul Auster
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- I write the paragraph, then I'm crossing out, changing words, trying to improve it. When it seems more or less OK, then… — Paul Auster
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- A professional writer is an amateur who didn't quit. — Richard Bach
- In every song I write, whether it's a love song or a political song or a song about family, the one thing… — Billie Joe Armstrong
- I grew up in a working-class family, so I guess you could say I write from what I know. — Andrea Arnold
- Writing comes more easily if you have something to say. — Sholem Asch
- Individual science fiction stories may seem as trivial as ever to the blinder critics and philosophers of today - but the core… — Isaac Asimov
- If my doctor told me I had only six minutes to live, I wouldn't brood. I'd type a little faster. — Isaac Asimov
- Science fiction writers foresee the inevitable, and although problems and catastrophes may be inevitable, solutions are not. — Isaac Asimov