“It's the form it takes when it comes out the other side, of course, that gives a story something unique--its life. The story, in the way it has arrived at what it is on the page, has been something learned, by dint of the story's challenge and the work that rises to meet it--a process as uncharted for the writer as if it had never been attempted before.” IfsWayGivingHas BeensStoriesFormCoursesProcessSidesChallengesPagesUniqueUncharted Book:Stories, Essays, and Memoir Source: Stories, Essays, and Memoir
“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.” PeopleGivingHumansPainHurtHuman BeingsTerribleEmptyHealVacuumsOutrageInsensitiveCallous Author:Eudora Welty
“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.” PeopleGivingStillsBookStoriesRememberReadingNaturalWonderWrittenReadyArmsPaperWeightCommittedPossessionSmellGrassPrintedCapturedDisappointingBindingIlliterateStory BookNatural Wonders Author:Eudora Welty
“But how much better, in any case, to wonder than not to wonder, to dance with astonishment and go spinning in praise, than not to know enough to dance or praise at all; to be blessed with more imagination than you might know at the given moment what to do with than to be cursed with too little to give you -- and other people -- any trouble.” PeopleKnowsGivingLittlesEnoughMomentsMightGivenImaginationWonderCasesTroublePraiseBlessedSpinningCursedAstonishmentBeing Blessed Author:Eudora Welty
“Don't give anybody up." He stroked her. "Or leave anybody out. Me and you both left her out today, and I'm ashamed for us." "There just wasn't room in today for it ... He said, "There's room for everything, and time for everybody, if you take your day the way it comes along and try not to be much later than you can help."” IfsWayGivingTryingHelpingRoomsGloria Author:Eudora Welty
“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.” IfsGivingWritingStillsBookMomentsEyeMovingPositionStrangeColdReaderTerribleGive MeExposure Author:Eudora Welty
“Time is anonymous; when we give it a face, it's the same face the world over.” WorldGivingFacesTimeSame Face Book:On Writing Source: On Writing
