Eudora Welty Quotes About Books

Quotes about: Books

• It had been startling and disappointing to me to find out that story books had been written by people, that books were not natural wonders, coming up of themselves like grass. Yet regardless of where they come from, I cannot remember a time when I was not in love with them - with the books themselves, cover and binding and the paper they were printed on, with their smell and their weight and with their possession in my arms, captured and carried off to myself. Still illiterate, I was ready for them, committed to all the reading I could give them.

  Eudora Welty

  Book, Reading, Smell

  One Writer's Beginnings ch. 1 (1983)

• It had been startling and disappointing to me to find out that story books had been written by people, that books were not natural wonders, coming of themselves like grass.

  Eudora Welty

  Appreciation, Book, Writing

  One Writer's Beginnings ch. 1 (1983)

• I wanted to read immediately. The only fear was that of books coming to an end.

  Eudora Welty

  Book, Ends, Coming To An End

  Eudora Welty (1995). “One Writer's Beginnings”, p.30, Harvard University Press

• 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

  Moving, Book, Writing

• I cannot remember a time when I was not in love with them--with the books themselves, cover and binding and the paper they were printed on, with their smell and their weight and with their possession in my arms, captured and carried off to myself.

  Eudora Welty

  Book, Smell, Library

  Eudora Welty (1998). “Stories, Essays, and Memoir”

• 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

  Pain, Disappointment, Book

• I read library books as fast as I could go, rushing them home in the basket of my bicycle. From the minute I reached our house, I started to read. Every book I seized on, from “Bunny Brown and His Sister Sue at Camp Rest-a-While” to “Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea,” stood for the devouring wish to read being instantly granted. I knew this was bliss, knew it at the time. Taste isn’t nearly so important; it comes in its own time.

  Eudora Welty

  Book, Home, Sea

• 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

  Book, Writing, Voice

  Eudora Welty (1995). “One Writer's Beginnings”, p.12, Harvard University Press

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