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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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“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

“A good snapshot stops a moment from running away.”

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Book:Stories, Essays, and Memoir

Source: Stories, Essays, and Memoir

“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.”

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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.”

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Author:Eudora Welty

“Learning stamps you with its moments. Childhood's learning is made up of moments. It isn't steady. It's a pulse.”

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Book:One Writer's Beginnings

Source: One Writer's Beginnings

“Insight doesn't happen often on the click of the moment, like a lucky snapshot, but comes in its own time and more slowly and from nowhere but within.”

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

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

“Fiction shows us the past as well as the present moment in mortal light; it is an art served by the indelibility of our memory, and one empowered by a sharp and prophetic awareness of what is ephemeral. It is by the ephemeral that our feeling is so strongly aroused for what endures.”

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Book:On Writing

Source: On Writing

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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