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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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“Great fiction shows us not how to conduct our behavior but how to feel. Eventually, it may show us how to face our feelings and face our actions and to have new inklings about what they mean. A good novel of any year can initiate us into our own new experience.”

Feels Years May Mean Shows Feelings Action Faces Fiction Novel Behavior Our Actions New Experiences Initiate

Book:On Writing

Source: On Writing

“My mother read secondarily for information; she sank as a hedonist into novels. She read Dickens in the spirit in which she would have eloped with him.”

Spirit Mother Reading Novel Information Dickens Hedonist

Author:Eudora Welty

“Writing a story or a novel is one way of discovering sequence in experience, of stumbling upon cause and effect in the happenings of a writer's own life.”

Way Writing Stories Causes Novel Effects Happenings Experience One Way Discovering Sequence Cause And Effect Stumbling

Book:One Writer's Beginnings

Source: One Writer's Beginnings

“Making reality real is art's responsibility. It is a practical assignment, then, a self-assignment: to achieve, by a cultivated sensitivity for observing life, a capacity for receiving impressions, a lonely, unremitting, unaided, unaidable vision, and transferring this vision without distortion to it onto the pages of a novel, where, if the reader is so persuaded, it will turn into the reader's illusion.”

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Book:On Writing

Source: On Writing

“The writing of a novel is taking life as it already exists, not to report it but to make an object, toward the end that the finished work might contain this life inside it and offer it to the reader. The essence will not be, of course, the same thing as the raw material; it is not even of the same family of things. The novel is something that never was before and will not be again.”

Writing Ends Might Courses Novel Objects Materials Reader Offers Essence Finished This Life Reports Raw Materials Finished Work

Book:On Writing

Source: On Writing

“What we know about writing the novel is the novel.”

Knows Writing Novel

Book:On Writing

Source: On Writing

“A short story is confined to one mood, to which everything in the story pertains. Characters, setting, time, events, are all subject to the mood. And you can try more ephemeral, more fleeting things in a story - you can work more by suggestion - than in a novel. Less is resolved, more is suggested, perhaps.”

Trying Character Stories Novel Subjects Events Mood Setting Settings Insightful Short Story Suggestions Fleeting Confined Ephemeral

Author:Eudora Welty

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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