"I had to grow up and learn to……" — Eudora Welty

I had to grow up and learn to listen for the unspoken… - Eudora Welty

"I had to grow up and learn to listen for the unspoken as well as the spoken-and to know a truth."

— Eudora Welty

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92 Quotes by Eudora Welty

Eudora Welty has 92 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

Beware of a man with manners.
The writing of a novel is taking life as it already exists, not to report it but to make an…
Integrity can be neither lost nor concealed nor faked nor quenched nor artificially come by nor outlived, nor, I believe,…
Look for where the sky is brightest along the horizon. That reflects the nearest river. Strike out for a river…
Every story would be another story, and unrecognizable if it took up its characters and plot and happened somewhere else…
To imagine yourself inside another person...is what a story writer does in every piece of work; it is his first…
There's still a strange moment with every book when I move from the position of writer to the position of…
Dialogue has to show not only something about the speaker that is its own revelation, but also maybe something about…
What we know about writing the novel is the novel.
A short story is confined to one mood, to which everything in the story pertains. Characters, setting, time, events, are…
When they turned off, it was still early in the pink and green fields. The fumes of morning, sweet and…
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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More Grow Quotes

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Boxing gave me the opportunities to grow into the person that I am today. — Alexis Arguello
Get this in mind early: We never grow up. — Richard Bach
It's coming home to roost over the next 50 years or so. It's not just climate change; it's sheer space,… — David Attenborough
We grow older, but we do not change. We become more sophisticated, but at bottom we continue to resemble our… — Paul Auster
In the winter, I enjoy cross-country skiing and raising orchids and amaryllises. If I could grow tropical flowers as perennials,… — Diane Ackerman
Rarely do members of the same family grow up under the same roof. — Richard Bach
I just lead my life as naturally, as normally as I possibly can. But I can't help it if controversy… — Amitabh Bachchan
A garden requires patient labor and attention. Plants do not grow merely to satisfy ambitions or to fulfill good intentions.… — Liberty Hyde Bailey
Don't try to make children grow up to be like you, or they may do it. — Russell Baker
What the New Yorker calls home would seem like a couple of closets to most Americans, yet he manages not… — Russell Baker
Well, capitalism is going to grow and grow. The nature of it is that the guy who has the most… — Simon Baker
I'm sometimes scared of everything that has happened to us. We didn't think Desilu Productions would grow so big. We… — Lucille Ball

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