"Fiction shows us the past as well as……" — Eudora Welty
"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, and one empowered by a sharp and prophetic awareness of what is ephemeral. It is by the ephemeral that our feeling is so strongly aroused for what endures."
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Eudora Welty
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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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In general I was a good kid. It usually took a lot to make me mad. But once I reached…
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Monet's garden must be included with his works, because he combined the magic of an adaptation of nature with the…
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Men wake up aroused in the morning. We can't help it. We just wake up and we want you. And…
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No scientific subject has ever aroused quite the same mixture of hopes and fears [as atomic energy].
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As the attuning of music arouses emotions in the body to an unusual degree, well that there be choices made…
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Young people are capable, when aroused, of bringing down the towers of oppression and raising the banners of freedom.
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Writing should be meaningful for children, Y an intrinsic need should be aroused in them, and Y writing should be…
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All that is noble is in itself of a quiet nature, and appears to sleep until it is aroused and…
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Unjust criticism is usually disguised compliment. It often means that you have aroused jealously and envy. Remember that no one…
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If you live in rock and roll, as I do, you see the reality of sex, of male lust and…
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