"She read Dickens in the same spirit she……" — Eudora Welty
"She read Dickens in the same spirit she would have eloped with him."
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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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More Dickens Quotes
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one of 118 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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Once upon a time, novelists of the 19th century, such as Charles Dickens, published in serial form.
— Margaret Atwood
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Familial love can find an echo in our own hearts just as it did in that of Charles Dickens.
— Peter Ackroyd
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We were put to Dickens as children but it never quite took. That unremitting humanity soon had me cheesed off.
— Alan Bennett
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One of Dickens' biggest influences was the growth of London as a Victorian city, and the extremes being created as…
— Danny Boyle
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Be like a duck. Calm on the surface, but always paddling like the dickens underneath.
— Michael Caine
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Early on, I was so impressed with Charles Dickens. I grew up in the South, in a little village in…
— Maya Angelou
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I cannot tell what the dickens his name is.
— William Shakespeare
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I love Dickens. I love the way he sets a scene.
— David McCullough
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I've been in the entertainment industry since I was six-years-old ... As Charles Dickens says, 'It's been the best of…
— Michael Jackson
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Because Dickens and Dostoyevsky and Woody Guthrie were telling their stories much better than I ever could, I decided to stick…
— Bob Dylan
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Every city has a sex and an age which have nothing to do with demography. Rome is feminine. So is…
— John Berger
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I love the tradition of Dickens, where even the most minor walk-on characters are twitching and particular and alive.
— Donna Tartt
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