Home Quote by Eudora Welty Download Open image “Any room in our house at any time in the day was there to read in or to be read to.” — Eudora Welty ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.0 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare Day Read Home House House Time Inspirational Love Room Room House Rooms Time Writer
“I learned from the age of two or three that any room in our house, at any time of day, was there to read… — Eudora Welty Copy Share Image
I got hit by the bug of reading - not via a person, but via the one-room library in our small town. I remember… — Anita Shreve Copy Share Image
My sister and I did not have our own rooms, or even a place to ourselves. In the living room, beyond the two windows,… — Gunter Grass Copy Share Image
It didn’t matter where you were, if you were in a room full of books you were at least halfway home. — Lev Grossman Copy Share Image
Often I sit up in my room reading the greatest part of the night, when the book was borrowed in the evening and to… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
“The reading rooms were large and quiet. Their windows were filmed in dust and desiccated insects, and seemed to age the light falling across… — China Miéville Copy Share Image
Like most writers, I read constantly. I used to hide in remote parts of the yard and house so I could read in peace. — Elin Hilderbrand Copy Share Image
Also, in my bedroom, nobody minded if I kept the hall door half-open, allowing in enough light that I was not scared of the… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
We had library books in our house, but not our own. So you had 14 days to read them. There would be eight books… — Sue Townsend Copy Share Image
Whatever our bedtime was as kids, we could stay up an extra half hour if we were reading. My parents didn't care as long… — Nathan Fillion Copy Share Image
My room for books and study or for sitting and thinking about nothing in particular to see what would happen was at the end… — Carl Sandburg Copy Share Image
From 7 in the morning to 11 at night, I was reading. I don't think one can find any other time in one's life… — Mohsen Makhmalbaf Copy Share Image
“She (my mother) could still recite them (the poems) in full when she was lying helpless and nearly blind, in her bed, an old… — Eudora Welty Copy Share Image
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… — Eudora Welty Copy Share Image
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… — Eudora Welty Copy Share Image
“Two by two, I read library books as fast as I could go, rushing them home in the basket of my bicycle. From the… — Eudora Welty Copy Share Image
“When somebody, no matter who, gives everything, it makes people feel ashamed for him.” — Eudora Welty Copy Share Image
“Daydreaming had started me on the way; but story writing, once I was truly in its grip, took me and shook me awake.” — Eudora Welty Copy Share Image
“All children in those small-town, unhurried days had a vast inner life going on in the movies. Children were allowed to go without chaperone… — Eudora Welty Copy Share Image
“At the sting in her eyes, she remembered for him that there must be no tears in his.” — Eudora Welty Copy Share Image
“We do need to bring to our writing, over and over again, all the abundance we possess. To be able, to be ready, to… — Eudora Welty Copy Share Image
“When one of us (children) caught measles or whooping cough and we were isolated in bad upstairs, we wrote notes to each other perhaps… — Eudora Welty Copy Share Image
“She (my mother) stood always prepared in herself to challenge the world in our place. She did indeed tend to make the world look… — Eudora Welty Copy Share Image
Sentiment is the mightiest force in civilization; not sentimentality, but sentiment. Women will bring this into politics. Home, sweet home, is as powerful on… — Judith Ellen Foster Copy Share Image
I don't like being away from home. That's one reason why I don't work as much as I used to [when I started my… — Jane Powell Copy Share Image
“It is not the force of the wind, but the depth of the roots.” — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
If your life's at a juncture and you need to think about things, there's nowhere better than home. However old you are. — Sophie Kinsella Copy Share Image
Most days, I go home and I feel rejuvenated. I feel ebullient. — Siddhartha Mukherjee Copy Share Image
If my campaign is not in the debate, we will not be talking about how we really fix this problem of endless and expanding… — Jill Stein Copy Share Image
The house has to serve comfort. The work of art is revolutionary; the house is conservative. — Adolf Loos Copy Share Image
I don't crave applause. I'm not one of those guys who comes alive on stage. I'm much more alive at home, I think. — David Bowie Copy Share Image
A home is not a museum. It doesn't have to be furnished with Picasso paintings, or Sheraton suites, or Oriental rugs, or Chinese pottery.… — James M. Cain Copy Share Image
As a child, I had a lot of older gay men taking care of me. There's a trust there. I feel like little girls… — Margaret Cho Copy Share Image
Everything comes home, my mother used to say; every word spoken, every shadow cast, every footprint in the sand. It can't be helped; it's… — Joanne Harris Copy Share Image