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Eudora Welty Quotes

People give pain, are callous and insensitive, empty and cruel... but place heals the hurt, soothes the outrage, fills the terrible vacuum that these human beings make Picture Quote #1

Each day the storm clouds were opening like great purple flowers and pouring out their dark thunder. Each nightfall, the storm was laid down on their houses like a burden the day had carried Picture Quote #1

Long before I wrote stories, I listened for stories. Listening for them is something more acute than listening to them Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

Insight doesn’t happen often on the click of the moment, like a lucky snapshot, but comes in its own time and more slowly and from nowhere but within Picture Quote #1

Time is anonymous; when we give it a face, it’s the same face the world over Picture Quote #1

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Integrity can be neither lost nor concealed nor faked nor quenched nor artificially come by nor outlived, nor, I believe, in the long run, denied Picture Quote #1

Characters take on life sometimes by luck, but I suspect it is when you can write more entirely out of yourself, inside the skin, heart, mind, and soul of a person who is not yourself, that a character becomes in his own right another human being on the page Picture Quote #1

To open up the new, to look back on the old may bring forth like discoveries in the practice of art Picture Quote #1

For the night was not impartial. No, the night loved some more than others, served some more than others Picture Quote #1

Writing a story or a novel is one way of discovering sequence in experience, of stumbling upon cause and effect in the happenings of a writer’s own life Picture Quote #1

The excursion is the same when you go looking for your sorrow as when you go looking for your joy Picture Quote #1

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The events in our lives happen in a sequence in time, but in their significance to ourselves they find their own order the continuous thread of revelation Picture Quote #1

Greater than scene is situation. Greater than situation is implication. Greater than all of these is a single, entire human being, who will never be confined in any frame Picture Quote #1

A sheltered life can be a daring life as well. For all serious daring starts from within Picture Quote #1

Through travel I first became aware of the outside world; it was through travel that I found my own introspective way into becoming a part of it Picture Quote #1

Writing fiction has developed in me an abiding respect for the unknown in a human lifetime and a sense of where to look for the threads, how to follow, how to connect, find in the thick of the tangle what clear line persists Picture Quote #1

Southerners love a good tale. They are born reciters, great memory retainers, diary keepers, letter exchangers... great talkers Picture Quote #1

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I believe in it, and I trust it too and treasure it above everything, the personal, the personal, the personal! I put my faith in it not only as the source, the ground of meaning in art, in life, but as the meaning itself Picture Quote #1

To write honestly and with all our powers is the least we can do, and the most Picture Quote #1

The novelist works neither to correct nor to condone, not at all to comfort, but to make what’s told alive Picture Quote #1

When they turned off, it was still early in the pink and green fields. The fumes of morning, sweet and bitter, sprang up where they walked. The insects ticked softly, their strength in reserve; butterflies chopped the air, going to the east, and the birds flew carelessly and sang by fits and starts, not the way they did in the evening in sustained and drowsy songs Picture Quote #1

There’s still a strange moment with every book when I move from the position of writer to the position of reader and I suddenly see my words with the eyes of the cold public. It gives me a terrible sense of exposure, as if I’d gotten sunburned Picture Quote #1

To imagine yourself inside another person... is what a story writer does in every piece of work; it is his first step, and his last too, I suppose Picture Quote #1

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Look for where the sky is brightest along the horizon. That reflects the nearest river. Strike out for a river and you will find habitation Picture Quote #1

A whole tree of lightning stood in the sky. She kept looking out the window, suffused with the warmth from the fire and with the pity and beauty and power of her death. The thunder rolled Picture Quote #1

My continuing passion is to part a curtain, that invisible veil of indifference that falls between us and that blinds us to each other’s presence, each other’s wonder, each other’s human plight Picture Quote #1

For the source of the short story is usually lyrical. And all writers speak from, and speak to, emotions eternally the same in all of us: love, pity, terror do not show favorites or leave any of us out Picture Quote #1

Gardening is akin to writing stories. No experience could have taught me more about grief or flowers, about achieving survival by going, your fingers in the ground, the limit of physical exhaustion Picture Quote #1

I wanted to read immediately. The only fear was that of books coming to an end Picture Quote #1

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People give pain, are callous and insensitive, empty and cruel... but place heals the hurt, soothes the outrage, fills the terrible vacuum that these human beings make (Eudora Welty Quotes) Each day the storm clouds were opening like great purple flowers and pouring out their dark thunder. Each nightfall, the storm was laid down on their houses like a burden the day had carried (Eudora Welty Quotes) Long before I wrote stories, I listened for stories. Listening for them is something more acute than listening to them (Eudora Welty Quotes) 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 (Eudora Welty Quotes) Insight doesn’t happen often on the click of the moment, like a lucky snapshot, but comes in its own time and more slowly and from nowhere but within (Eudora Welty Quotes) Time is anonymous; when we give it a face, it’s the same face the world over (Eudora Welty Quotes) Integrity can be neither lost nor concealed nor faked nor quenched nor artificially come by nor outlived, nor, I believe, in the long run, denied (Eudora Welty Quotes) Characters take on life sometimes by luck, but I suspect it is when you can write more entirely out of yourself, inside the skin, heart, mind, and soul of a person who is not yourself, that a character becomes in his own right another human being on the page (Eudora Welty Quotes) To open up the new, to look back on the old may bring forth like discoveries in the practice of art (Eudora Welty Quotes) For the night was not impartial. No, the night loved some more than others, served some more than others (Eudora Welty Quotes) Writing a story or a novel is one way of discovering sequence in experience, of stumbling upon cause and effect in the happenings of a writer’s own life (Eudora Welty Quotes) The excursion is the same when you go looking for your sorrow as when you go looking for your joy (Eudora Welty Quotes) The events in our lives happen in a sequence in time, but in their significance to ourselves they find their own order the continuous thread of revelation (Eudora Welty Quotes) Greater than scene is situation. Greater than situation is implication. Greater than all of these is a single, entire human being, who will never be confined in any frame (Eudora Welty Quotes) A sheltered life can be a daring life as well. For all serious daring starts from within (Eudora Welty Quotes) Through travel I first became aware of the outside world; it was through travel that I found my own introspective way into becoming a part of it (Eudora Welty Quotes) Writing fiction has developed in me an abiding respect for the unknown in a human lifetime and a sense of where to look for the threads, how to follow, how to connect, find in the thick of the tangle what clear line persists (Eudora Welty Quotes) Southerners love a good tale. They are born reciters, great memory retainers, diary keepers, letter exchangers... great talkers (Eudora Welty Quotes) I believe in it, and I trust it too and treasure it above everything, the personal, the personal, the personal! I put my faith in it not only as the source, the ground of meaning in art, in life, but as the meaning itself (Eudora Welty Quotes) To write honestly and with all our powers is the least we can do, and the most (Eudora Welty Quotes) The novelist works neither to correct nor to condone, not at all to comfort, but to make what’s told alive (Eudora Welty Quotes) When they turned off, it was still early in the pink and green fields. The fumes of morning, sweet and bitter, sprang up where they walked. The insects ticked softly, their strength in reserve; butterflies chopped the air, going to the east, and the birds flew carelessly and sang by fits and starts, not the way they did in the evening in sustained and drowsy songs (Eudora Welty Quotes) There’s still a strange moment with every book when I move from the position of writer to the position of reader and I suddenly see my words with the eyes of the cold public. It gives me a terrible sense of exposure, as if I’d gotten sunburned (Eudora Welty Quotes) To imagine yourself inside another person... is what a story writer does in every piece of work; it is his first step, and his last too, I suppose (Eudora Welty Quotes) Look for where the sky is brightest along the horizon. That reflects the nearest river. Strike out for a river and you will find habitation (Eudora Welty Quotes) A whole tree of lightning stood in the sky. She kept looking out the window, suffused with the warmth from the fire and with the pity and beauty and power of her death. The thunder rolled (Eudora Welty Quotes) My continuing passion is to part a curtain, that invisible veil of indifference that falls between us and that blinds us to each other’s presence, each other’s wonder, each other’s human plight (Eudora Welty Quotes) For the source of the short story is usually lyrical. And all writers speak from, and speak to, emotions eternally the same in all of us: love, pity, terror do not show favorites or leave any of us out (Eudora Welty Quotes) Gardening is akin to writing stories. No experience could have taught me more about grief or flowers, about achieving survival by going, your fingers in the ground, the limit of physical exhaustion (Eudora Welty Quotes) I wanted to read immediately. The only fear was that of books coming to an end (Eudora Welty Quotes)

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