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Eudora Welty was an American author renowned for her profound portrayal of life in the rural South. Her works often focus on the lives and characters of the Southern countryside, celebrated for their delicate emotions and unique narrative style.

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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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Book:Three papers on fiction

Source: Three papers on fiction

“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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Author:Eudora Welty

“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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Author:Eudora Welty

“Characters take on life sometimes by luck, but I suspect it is when you can write more entirely out of yourself, inside the skin, heart, mind, and soul of a person who is not yourself, that a character becomes in his own right another human being on the page.”

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Book:One Writer's Beginnings

Source: One Writer's Beginnings

“Since we must and do write each our own way, we may during actual writing get more lasting instruction not from another's work, whatever its blessings, however better it is than ours, but from our own poor scratched-over pages. For these we can hold up to life. That is, we are born with a mind and heart to hold each page up to, and to ask: is it valid?”

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Book:On Writing

Source: On Writing

“We are the breakers of our own hearts”

Heart

Book:One Time, One Place: Mississippi in the Depression : a Snapshot Album

Source: One Time, One Place: Mississippi in the Depression : a Snapshot Album

About the Author

Born: April 13, 1909
Died: July 23, 2001
Known for: Author
Quotes: 166

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On WritingRelated source material

One Writer's BeginningsRelated source material

The Optimist's DaughterRelated source material

The Collected Stories of Eudora WeltyRelated source material

The Collected StoriesRelated source material

Stories, Essays, and MemoirRelated source material

Three papers on fictionRelated source material

The Golden ApplesRelated source material

Bride of the Innisfallen & Other Stories: And Other StoriesRelated source material

Occasions: Selected WritingsRelated source material

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