"The writing of a novel is taking life……" — Eudora Welty
"The writing of a novel is taking life as it already exists, not to report it but to make an object, toward the end that the finished work might contain this life inside it and offer it to the reader. The essence will not be, of course, the same thing as the raw material; it is not even of the same family of things. The novel is something that never was before and will not be again."
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92 Quotes by Eudora Welty
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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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To write honestly and with all our powers is the least we can do, and the most.
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