Eudora Welty Quotes

Indeed, learning to write may be part of learning to read. For all I know, writing comes out of a superior devotion to reading.

Eudora Welty

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• Reading the several thousand pages of Christopher Isherwood's complete journals is an instructive corrective to the prissiness of reading fiction. Isherwood had faults that we'd say were unforgiveable in a novel (he was careful to distance himself from these in his autobiographical fiction).

  

  Edmund White
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  • Distance
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• When you a darker brunette and have pale skin like I do, it can wash you out a bit, so learning to contour is really helpful. I think you can be a bit more bold with eye makeup to define your eyes, and the same with lip colors - you can go for dark wine colors, which I love.

  

  Olivia Wilde
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• I think you have to learn for yourself how to write. I'm slightly mystified by creative writing courses - God love them - because I can't understand how you can explain a process that I find so baffling.

  

  Kate Atkinson
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• My wife is a painter, musician, and fiber artist. We married in 1993, and as she worked, I found that my reading about art was helping me understand what she was doing, just as seeing her work gave me a language with which to speak of art.

  

  Floyd Skloot
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• If you are a kid, reading is really important stuff.

  

  Caitlyn Jenner
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  • Reading

• I have given up reading books; I find it takes my mind off myself.

  

  Oscar Levant
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• You could take away the singing, and I am fine. But don't take away my gift of writing. It is the best way I can relate and express what I am feeling and what I am going through.

  

  BeBe Winans
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  • Feeling
  • Singing

• Education... has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth reading.

  

  G. M. Trevelyan
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  • Reading
  • Worth

• From 1999 on - until 2003 - I covered publishing in a weekly column for Wired.com and wrote for several other publications - altogether writing over 150 articles.

  

  M. J. Rose
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• Writing blurbs for books means you have to read the book, and it cuts into the business of bookselling. So every time I get a blurb from a bookseller, I try to write a thank you note.

  

  Gabrielle Zevin
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• The Ewoks were definitely a challenge of writing 'The Jedi Doth Return.' After having done so many things with characters who don't speak English, how was I going to make them stand out? Jedi is also rich with emotional material, particularly Darth Vader's transformation from the dark side back to the good.

  

  Ian Doescher
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• The most beautiful thing in the world is, of course, the world itself.

  

  Wallace Stevens
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• The tough thing about writing is you go into a room alone, you close the door and you do your work.

  

  Randy Wayne White
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• I could tell it was a popular move as a writer to walk down the bass lines while you were writing a song.

  

  Gavin DeGraw
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• By and large, the critics and readers gave me an affirmed sense of my identity as a writer. You might know this within yourself, but to have it affirmed by others is of utmost importance. Writing is, after all, a form of communication.

  

  Ralph Ellison
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  • Communication

• My writing has changed a lot. From 16 to 19, I've changed a lot. My kind of writing in the beginning was very observational; now it's grown very personal for me. I use it as a diary in many ways.

  

  Oliver Sim The xx
  • Writing
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  • Beginning

• Writing is a discipline: it's almost all about holding back.

  

  Rachel Cusk
  • Writing
  • Discipline
  • Back

• When you read a novel, your own imagery is the most important. It's what makes reading such a wonderful thing.

  

  Daniel Craig
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• You know that fiction, prose rather, is possibly the roughest trade of all in writing. You do not have the reference, the old important reference. You have the sheet of blank paper, the pencil, and the obligation to invent truer than things can be true. You have to take what is not palpable and make it completely palpable and also have it seem normal and so that it can become a part of experience of the person who reads it.

  

  Ernest Hemingway
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• I'm always interested in challenging myself and pushing and seeing how far I can go.

  

  Taraji P. Henson
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  • I Can
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• If you get your ego in your way, you will only look to other people and circumstances to blame.

  

  Jocko Willink
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• And God help Bruce Springsteen when they decide he's no longer God... They'll turn on him, and I hope he survives it.

  

  John Lennon The Beatles
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  • Bruce Springsteen

• We haven't even talked about Miami, so this has been about playing the other team.

  

  Phil Jackson
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• Indeed, learning to write may be part of learning to read. For all I know, writing comes out of a superior devotion to reading.

  

  Eudora Welty
  • Writing
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  • Learning