"I wanted to read immediately. The only fear……" — Eudora Welty

I wanted to read immediately. The only fear was that of books… - Eudora Welty

"I wanted to read immediately. The only fear was that of books coming to an end."

— 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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High thoughts must have high language. — Aristophanes
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Films and television and even comic books are churning out vast quantities of fictional narratives, and the public continues to… — Paul Auster
I'm not a comic book guy at all. — Darren Aronofsky
I don't believe in personal immortality; the only way I expect to have some version of such a thing is… — Isaac Asimov
I'd never heard of the 'Lord of the Rings', actually. So I went to the bookstore and there it was,… — Sean Astin
The question is, are we happy to suppose that our grandchildren may never be able to see an elephant except… — David Attenborough
I have a big following among the biogeeks of this world. Nobody ever puts them in books. — Margaret Atwood
Once you publish a book, it is out of your control. You cannot dictate how people read it. — Margaret Atwood
Writers and books are cheap dates, especially when you compare the cost of a book with a ticket to the… — Margaret Atwood
Our generation in the west was lucky: we had readymade gateways. We had books, paper, teachers, schools and libraries. But… — Margaret Atwood

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