Eudora Welty Quotes - Page 5

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• My mother read secondarily for information; she sank as a hedonist into novels. She read Dickens in the spirit in which she would have eloped with him.

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  Mother, Reading, Information

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• Ever since I was first read to, then started reading to myself, there has never been a line read that I didn't hear. As my eyes followed the sentence, a voice was saying it silently to me. It isn't my mother's voice, or the voice of any person I can identify, certainly not my own. It is human, but inward, and it is inwardly that I listen to it. It is to me the voice of the story or the poem itself.

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  Mother, Reading, Eye

  Eudora Welty (1995). “One Writer's Beginnings”, p.11, Harvard University Press

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• The first thing we see about a short story is its mystery. And in the best short stories, we return at the last to see mystery again

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  Best Short, Stories, Lasts

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• Plots are ... what the writer sees with.

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  Plot

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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.

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  Book, Writing, Voice

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

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• Both reading and writing are experiences--lifelong-- in the course of which we who encounter words used in certain ways are persuaded by them to be brought mind and heart within the presence, the power, of the imagination.

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  Reading, Heart, Writing

  Eudora Welty (1962). “Three papers on fiction”

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• Reading Chekhov was just like the angels singing to me.

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  Reading, Angel, Singing

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• Making reality real is art's responsibility. It is a practical assignment, then, a self-assignment: to achieve, by a cultivated sensitivity for observing life, a capacity for receiving impressions, a lonely, unremitting, unaided, unaidable vision, and transferring this vision without distortion to it onto the pages of a novel, where, if the reader is so persuaded, it will turn into the reader's illusion.

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  Lonely, Art, Real

  Eudora Welty (2011). “On Writing”, p.53, Modern Library

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• I think that as you learn more about writing you learn to be direct.

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  Writing, Thinking, Direct

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• Every story teaches you how to write that story but not the next story.

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  Writing, Stories, Next

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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.

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  Writing, Pleasure, My Friends

  Eudora Welty (2016). “Delta Wedding”, p.7, Head of Zeus

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• A short story is confined to one mood, to which everything in the story pertains. Characters, setting, time, events, are all subject to the mood. And you can try more ephemeral, more fleeting things in a story - you can work more by suggestion - than in a novel. Less is resolved, more is suggested, perhaps.

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  Character, Insightful, Trying

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• What we know about writing the novel is the novel.

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  Writing, Novel, Knows

  Eudora Welty (2011). “On Writing”, p.64, Modern Library

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• To open up the new, to look back on the old may bring forth like discoveries in the practice of art.

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  Art, Discovery, Practice

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• Writers and travelers are mesmerized alike by knowing of their destinations.

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  Knowing, Destination, Traveler

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

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• 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.

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  Respect, Writing, Abiding

  Eudora Welty (1995). “One Writer's Beginnings”, p.90, Harvard University Press

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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.

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  Art, Believe, Treasure

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• Fantasy is no good unless the seed it springs from is a truth, a truth about human beings.

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  Spring, Fantasy, Humans

  Eudora Welty (1975). “Fairy Tale of the Natchez Trace: A Paper Read at the Annual Dinner Meeting of the Mississippi Historical Society, Jackson, Mississippi, March 7, 1975”

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• Every story teaches me how to write it. Unfortunately, it doesn't teach me how to write the next one.

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  Writing, Stories, Next

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• 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.

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  Life, Travel, Inspiration

  Eudora Welty (1995). “One Writer's Beginnings”, p.76, Harvard University Press

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• I'm a great reader that never has time to read.

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  Reader

  Eudora Welty (2016). “Delta Wedding / The Ponder Heart”, p.336, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• I learned quickly enough when to click the shutter, but what I was becoming aware of more slowly was a story-writer's truth: The thing to wait on, to reach for, is the moment in which people reveal themselves... I learned from my own pictures, one by one, and had to; for I think we are the breakers of our own hearts.

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  Heart, Thinking, People

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• Is there any sleeping person you can be entirely sure you have not misjudged?

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  Sleep, Persons

  Eudora Welty (2011). “The Optimist's Daughter”, p.60, Vintage

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