“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.” FirstsHumansPersonsI CanStoriesEyeMotherReadingVoiceLinesMy OwnSentencesInward Book:One Writer's Beginnings Source: One Writer's Beginnings
“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” FirstsStoriesLastsMysteryReturnShort StoryBest Short Author:Eudora Welty
“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.” WorldWayLifeFirstsInspirationFoundMy OwnJourneyInspirational LifeBecomingTravelTime TravelTraveledFunny TravelIntrospectiveOutside WorldGreat TravelTravel The WorldTravel AdventureAdventure And TravelInspirational AdventureBackpackingTravel JourneyInspirational Adventure TimeFunny Adventure Book:One Writer's Beginnings Source: One Writer's Beginnings
“To imagine yourself inside another person...is what a story writer does in every piece of work; it is his first step, and his last too, I suppose.” WritingFirstsPersonsDoeStoriesLastsStepsPiecesImagineWorking ItFirst StepsStory Writers Author:Eudora Welty
“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.” FeelsWritingFirstsCharacterIndividualFictionInsightLabelsSensitivePlotInteriors Author:Eudora Welty
“The first act of insight is throw away the labels.” FirstsUnderstandingInsightLabels Author:Eudora Welty
“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.” WritingFirstsLastsPurposeSeeingCloudsSteadyGood WritingBlurLucidityVagueness Book:On Writing Source: On Writing
