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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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Famous Eudora Welty Quotes

“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.”

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Book:One Writer's Beginnings

Source: One Writer's Beginnings

“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

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

Humans Use Lying Language Mystery Human Life Use Of Language

Book:On Writing

Source: On Writing

“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.”

Humans Human Beings Situation Greater Scene Confined Implications

Book:One Writer's Beginnings

Source: One Writer's Beginnings

“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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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

“My continuing passion is to part a curtain, that invisible veil of indifference that falls between us and that blinds us to each other's presence, each other's wonder, each other's human plight.”

Humans Fall Passion Wonder Invisible Indifference Continuing Veils Curtains Plight

Author:Eudora Welty

“Writing fiction has developed in me an abiding respect for the unknown in a human lifetime and a sense of where to look for the threads, how to follow, how to connect, find in the thick of the tangle what clear line persists.”

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Book:One Writer's Beginnings

Source: One Writer's Beginnings

“Human life is fiction's only theme.”

Humans Life Is Fiction Human Life Theme

Book:Three papers on fiction

Source: Three papers on fiction

“Fantasy is no good unless the seed it springs from is a truth, a truth about human beings.”

Humans Human Beings Fantasy Spring Seeds

Book:Fairy Tale of the Natchez Trace: A Paper Read at the Annual Dinner Meeting of the Mississippi Historical Society, Jackson, Mississippi, March 7, 1975

Source: Fairy Tale of the Natchez Trace: A Paper Read at the Annual Dinner Meeting of the Mississippi Historical Society, Jackson, Mississippi, March 7, 1975

About the Author

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

Books & Sources

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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