Eudora Welty Quotes - Page 2

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• Never think you've seen the last of anything.

  Eudora Welty

  Memorable, Thinking, Lasts

  The Optimist's Daughter ch. 1 (1969)

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• All experience is an enrichment rather than an impoverishment.

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  Experience, Enrichment

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• How can you go out on a limb if you do not know your own tree? No art ever came out of not risking your neck. And risk--experiment--is a considerable part of the joy of doing.

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  Art, Tree, Joy

  Eudora Welty (1962). “Three Papers on Fiction”

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• I'm not very eloquent about things like this, but I think that writing and photography go together. I don't mean that they are related arts, because they're not. But the person doing it, I think, learns from both things about accuracy of the eye, about observation, and about sympathy toward what is in front of you... It's about honesty, or truth telling, and a way to find it in yourself, how to need it and learn from it.

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  Photography, Art, Honesty

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• I had to grow up and learn to listen for the unspoken as well as the spoken-and to know a truth.

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  Growing Up, Growth, Wells

  Eudora Welty (1995). “One Writer's Beginnings”, p.15, Harvard University Press

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• The mystery lies in the use of language to express human life.

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  Lying, Use, Language

  Eudora Welty (2011). “On Writing”, p.63, Modern Library

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• I was always my own teacher.

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  Teacher, Learning, My Own

  Eudora Welty (1995). “One Writer's Beginnings”, p.85, Harvard University Press

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• 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.

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  Grief, Flower, Writing

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• 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.

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  Stories, Emotion, Speak

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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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  Writing, Honestly, Can Do

  "On Writing". Book by Eudora Welty, 2011.

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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.

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  Hurt, Pain, People

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• 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.

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  Writing, Experience, Stories

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

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• 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.

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  Scene, Situation, Humans

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

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• Location pertains to feelings - feelings are bound up in place.

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  Feelings, Location, Bounds

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• 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.

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  Music, Song, Sweet

  Eudora Welty (1974). “The Wide Net and Other Stories”, p.51, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Radio, sewing machine, bookends, ironing board and that great big piano lamp - peace, that's what I like. Butterbean vines planted all along the front where the strings are.

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  Women, Home, Ironing Board

  Eudora Welty (1982). “The Collected Stories of Eudora Welty”, p.56, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Out of love you can speak with straight fury.

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  Love You, Speak, Introspection

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• 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.

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  Beauty, Mean, World

  Eudora Welty (2011). “On Writing”, p.27, Modern Library

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• All good writers speak in honest voices and tell the truth.

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  Voice, Honest, Speak

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• 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.

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  Country, Art, Voice

  Eudora Welty (2011). “On Writing”, p.40, Modern Library

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• Suppose you meet me in the woods.

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  Woods

  Eudora Welty (1982). “The Collected Stories of Eudora Welty”, p.264, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• The first act of insight is throw away the labels. In fiction, while we do not necessarily write about ourselves, we write out of ourselves, using ourselves; what we learn from, what we are sensitive to, what we feel strongly about--these become our characters and go to make our plots. Characters in fiction are conceived from within, and they have, accordingly, their own interior life; they are individuals every time.

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  Writing, Character, Plot

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• 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.

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  Book, Smell, Library

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

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• The very greatest mystery is in unsheathed reality itself.

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  Reality, Mystery

  "Photographs".

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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.

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  Writing, Heart, Character

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