"One place comprehended can make us understand other……" — Eudora Welty
"One place comprehended can make us understand other places better."
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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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