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Famous Eudora Welty Quotes
“I was always my own teacher.”
“Passion is our ground, our island - do others exist?”
“Travel itself is part of some longer continuity.”
“I think that as you learn more about writing you learn to be direct.”
“Each story tells me how to write it, but not the one afterwards.”
“I get a moral satisfaction out of putting things together.”
“A thing is incredible, if ever, only after it is told -- returned to the world it came out of.”
“I'm a great reader that never has time to read.”
“Is there any sleeping person you can be entirely sure you have not misjudged?”
“I like the feeling of being able to confront an experience and resolve it as art.”
“The mystery lies in the use of language to express human life.”
“A story is not the same thing when it ends as it was when it began.”
“Location pertains to feelings - feelings are bound up in place.”
“Every story teaches you how to write that story but not the next story.”
“The fictional eye sees in, through, and around what is really there.”
“All good writers speak in honest voices and tell the truth.”
“The strands are all there; to the memory nothing is ever lost.”
“A good snapshot stops a moment from running away.”
“The excursion is the same when you go looking for your sorrow as when you go looking for your joy.”
“All experience is an enrichment rather than an impoverishment.”