Eudora Welty Quotes
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A story is not the same thing when it ends as it was when it began.
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The very greatest mystery is in unsheathed reality itself.
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Plots are ... what the writer sees with.
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I'm not very eloquent about things like this, but I think that writing and photography go together. I don't mean that they are related arts, because they're not. But the person doing it, I think, learns from both things about accuracy of the eye, about observation, and about sympathy toward what is in front of you... It's about honesty, or truth telling, and a way to find it in yourself, how to need it and learn from it.
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Suppose you meet me in the woods.
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A sheltered life can be a daring life as well. For all serious daring starts from within.
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Relationship is a pervading and changing mystery... brutal or lovely, the mystery waits for people wherever they go, whatever extreme they run to.
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At the time of writing, I don't write for my friends or myself either; I write for it, for the pleasure of it.
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William Eggleston sets forth what makes up our ordinary world. What is there, however strange, can be accepted without question; familiarity will be what overwhelms us.
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Ah, I'm a woman that's been clear around the world in my rocking chair, and I tell you we all get surprises now and then.
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Write about what you don't know about what you know.
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Daydreaming had started me on the way; but story writing once I was truly in its grip, took me and shook me awake.
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Gardening is akin to writing stories. No experience could have taught me more about grief or flowers, about achieving survival by going, your fingers in the ground, the limit of physical exhaustion.
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Writing is an expression of the writer's own peculiar personality, could not help being so. Yet in reading great works one feels that the finished piece transcends the personal. All writers great and small must sometimes have felt that they have become part of what they wrote even more than it still remains a part of them.
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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.
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The mystery lies in the use of language to express human life.
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Never think you've seen the last of anything.
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A thing is incredible, if ever, only after it is told -- returned to the world it came out of.
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Each story tells me how to write it, but not the one afterwards.
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She read Dickens in the spirit in which she would have eloped with him.
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When I read, I hear what's on the page. I don't know whose voice it is, but some voice is reading to me, and when I write my own stories, I hear it, too.
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If you haven't surprised yourself, you haven't written.
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Beware of a man with manners.
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For the night was not impartial. No, the night loved some more than others, served some more than others.