"Children, like animals use all their senses to……" — Eudora Welty
"Children, like animals use all their senses to discover the world. Then artists come along and discover it the same way...Or now and then we'll hear from an artisit who's never lost it."
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92 Quotes by Eudora Welty
Eudora Welty has 92 quotes on this site.
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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…
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Integrity can be neither lost nor concealed nor faked nor quenched nor artificially come by nor outlived, nor, I believe,…
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Look for where the sky is brightest along the horizon. That reflects the nearest river. Strike out for a river…
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Every story would be another story, and unrecognizable if it took up its characters and plot and happened somewhere else…
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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…
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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…
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Dialogue has to show not only something about the speaker that is its own revelation, but also maybe something about…
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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…
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When they turned off, it was still early in the pink and green fields. The fumes of morning, sweet and…
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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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A friend to all is a friend to none.
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