“Relationship is a pervading and changing mystery... brutal or lovely, the mystery waits for people wherever they go, whatever extreme they run to.” PeopleRunningWaitingMysteryExtremesLovelyBrutal Book:On Writing Source: On Writing
“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.” PeopleThinkingHeartEnoughMomentsStoriesWaitingMy OwnBecomingClicksShuttersStory Writers 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 of themselves like grass.” PeopleWritingBookStoriesNaturalWonderWrittenAppreciationGrassDisappointingStory BookNatural Wonders Author:Eudora Welty
“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
“The mystery in how little we know of other people is no greater than the mystery of how much, Laurel thought.” PeopleKnowsLittlesGreaterMysteryLaurels Book:The Optimist's Daughter Source: The Optimist's Daughter
“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
“People are mostly layers of violence and tenderness wrapped like bulbs, and it is difficult to say what makes them onions or hyacinths.” PeopleDifficultViolenceLayersTendernessOnionsBulbsHyacinths Author:Eudora Welty
“Beware of a man with manners.” PeopleMenMannersFakeFake People Book:The Golden Apples Source: The Golden Apples
