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Eudora Welty Quotes

Making reality real is art’s responsibility Picture Quote #1

No art ever came out of not risking your neck Picture Quote #1

Beware of a man with manners Picture Quote #1

Suppose you meet me in the woods Picture Quote #1

Never think you’ve seen the last of anything Picture Quote #1

All experience is an enrichment rather than an impoverishment Picture Quote #1

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Is there any sleeping person you can be entirely sure you have not misjudged? Picture Quote #1

Write about what you don’t know about what you know Picture Quote #1

Writers and travelers are mesmerized alike by knowing of their destinations Picture Quote #1

The first act of insight is throw away the labels Picture Quote #1

I like the feeling of being able to confront an experience and resolve it as art Picture Quote #1

Dialogue has to show not only something about the speaker that is its own revelation, but also maybe something about the speaker that he doesn’t know but the other character does know Picture Quote #1

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What I do in the writing of any character is to try to enter into the mind, heart and skin of a human being who is not myself. It is the act of a writer’s imagination that I set the most high Picture Quote #1

Learning stamps you with its moments. Childhood’s learning is made up of moments. It isn’t steady. It’s a pulse Picture Quote #1

Without stopping to be sorry for her head he crammed kisses in her mouth, and she wound her arms up around his own drenched head and returned him kiss for kiss Picture Quote #1

I am a writer who came of a sheltered life. A sheltered life can be a daring life as well. For all serious daring starts from within Picture Quote #1

Fiction shows us the past as well as the present moment in mortal light; it is an art served by the indelibility of our memory, and one empowered by a sharp and prophetic awareness of what is ephemeral. It is by the ephemeral that our feeling is so strongly aroused for what endures Picture Quote #1

No blur of inexactness, no cloud of vagueness, is allowable in good writing; from the first seeing to the last putting down, there must be steady lucidity and uncompromise of purpose Picture Quote #1

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At the time of writing, I don’t write for my friends or myself either; I write for it, for the pleasure of it Picture Quote #1

Great fiction shows us not how to conduct our behavior but how to feel. Eventually, it may show us how to face our feelings and face our actions and to have new inklings about what they mean. A good novel of any year can initiate us into our own new experience Picture Quote #1

The challenge to writers today, I think, is not to disown any part of our heritage. Whatever our theme in writing, it is old and tried. Whatever our place, it has been visited by the stranger, it will never be new again. It is only the vision that can be new; but that is enough Picture Quote #1

Relationship is a pervading and changing mystery... brutal or lovely, the mystery waits for people wherever they go, whatever extreme they run to Picture Quote #1

Beauty is not a means, not a way of furthering a thing in the world. It is a result; it belongs to ordering, to form, to aftereffect Picture Quote #1

Ah, I’m a woman that’s been clear around the world in my rocking chair, and I tell you we all get surprises now and then Picture Quote #1

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My own words, when I am at work on a story, I hear too as they go, in the same voice that I hear when I read in books. When I write and the sound of it comes back to my ears, then I act to make changes. I have always trusted this voice Picture Quote #1

Daydreaming had started me on the way; but story writing once I was truly in its grip, took me and shook me awake Picture Quote #1

Fantasy is no good unless the seed it springs from is a truth, a truth about human beings Picture Quote #1

Art is never the voice of a country, it is an even more precious thing, the voice of the individual, doing its best to speak, not comfort of any sort, but truth. And the art that speaks it most unmistakably, most directly, most variously, most fully, is fiction Picture Quote #1

My main disappointment was always that a book had to end. And then what? But I don’t think I was ever disappointed by the books. I must have been what any author would consider an ideal reader. I felt every pain and pleasure suffered or enjoyed by all the characters. Oh, but I identified! Picture Quote #1

Indeed, learning to write may be part of learning to read. For all I know, writing comes out of a superior devotion to reading Picture Quote #1

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Making reality real is art’s responsibility (Eudora Welty Quotes) No art ever came out of not risking your neck (Eudora Welty Quotes) Beware of a man with manners (Eudora Welty Quotes) Suppose you meet me in the woods (Eudora Welty Quotes) Never think you’ve seen the last of anything (Eudora Welty Quotes) All experience is an enrichment rather than an impoverishment (Eudora Welty Quotes) Is there any sleeping person you can be entirely sure you have not misjudged? (Eudora Welty Quotes) Write about what you don’t know about what you know (Eudora Welty Quotes) Writers and travelers are mesmerized alike by knowing of their destinations (Eudora Welty Quotes) The first act of insight is throw away the labels (Eudora Welty Quotes) I like the feeling of being able to confront an experience and resolve it as art (Eudora Welty Quotes) Dialogue has to show not only something about the speaker that is its own revelation, but also maybe something about the speaker that he doesn’t know but the other character does know (Eudora Welty Quotes) What I do in the writing of any character is to try to enter into the mind, heart and skin of a human being who is not myself. It is the act of a writer’s imagination that I set the most high (Eudora Welty Quotes) Learning stamps you with its moments. Childhood’s learning is made up of moments. It isn’t steady. It’s a pulse (Eudora Welty Quotes) Without stopping to be sorry for her head he crammed kisses in her mouth, and she wound her arms up around his own drenched head and returned him kiss for kiss (Eudora Welty Quotes) I am a writer who came of a sheltered life. A sheltered life can be a daring life as well. For all serious daring starts from within (Eudora Welty Quotes) Fiction shows us the past as well as the present moment in mortal light; it is an art served by the indelibility of our memory, and one empowered by a sharp and prophetic awareness of what is ephemeral. It is by the ephemeral that our feeling is so strongly aroused for what endures (Eudora Welty Quotes) No blur of inexactness, no cloud of vagueness, is allowable in good writing; from the first seeing to the last putting down, there must be steady lucidity and uncompromise of purpose (Eudora Welty Quotes) At the time of writing, I don’t write for my friends or myself either; I write for it, for the pleasure of it (Eudora Welty Quotes) Great fiction shows us not how to conduct our behavior but how to feel. Eventually, it may show us how to face our feelings and face our actions and to have new inklings about what they mean. A good novel of any year can initiate us into our own new experience (Eudora Welty Quotes) The challenge to writers today, I think, is not to disown any part of our heritage. Whatever our theme in writing, it is old and tried. Whatever our place, it has been visited by the stranger, it will never be new again. It is only the vision that can be new; but that is enough (Eudora Welty Quotes) Relationship is a pervading and changing mystery... brutal or lovely, the mystery waits for people wherever they go, whatever extreme they run to (Eudora Welty Quotes) Beauty is not a means, not a way of furthering a thing in the world. It is a result; it belongs to ordering, to form, to aftereffect (Eudora Welty Quotes) Ah, I’m a woman that’s been clear around the world in my rocking chair, and I tell you we all get surprises now and then (Eudora Welty Quotes) My own words, when I am at work on a story, I hear too as they go, in the same voice that I hear when I read in books. When I write and the sound of it comes back to my ears, then I act to make changes. I have always trusted this voice (Eudora Welty Quotes) Daydreaming had started me on the way; but story writing once I was truly in its grip, took me and shook me awake (Eudora Welty Quotes) Fantasy is no good unless the seed it springs from is a truth, a truth about human beings (Eudora Welty Quotes) Art is never the voice of a country, it is an even more precious thing, the voice of the individual, doing its best to speak, not comfort of any sort, but truth. And the art that speaks it most unmistakably, most directly, most variously, most fully, is fiction (Eudora Welty Quotes) My main disappointment was always that a book had to end. And then what? But I don’t think I was ever disappointed by the books. I must have been what any author would consider an ideal reader. I felt every pain and pleasure suffered or enjoyed by all the characters. Oh, but I identified! (Eudora Welty Quotes) Indeed, learning to write may be part of learning to read. For all I know, writing comes out of a superior devotion to reading (Eudora Welty Quotes)

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