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Surely even those immune from the world, for the time being, need the touch of one another, or all is lost. — Eudora Welty

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. — Eudora Welty

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

Write about what you don't know about what you know. — Eudora Welty

Every story teaches me how to write it. Unfortunately, it doesn't teach me how to write the next one. — Eudora Welty

Every story teaches you how to write that story but not the next story. — Eudora Welty

Was now the time to look forward to the doom of parting, and stop looking back at the doom of meeting? — Eudora Welty

The fantasies of dying could be no stranger than the fantasies of living. Survival is perhaps the strangest fantasy of them all. — Eudora Welty

A little girl lay flung back in her mother's lap as though sleep had struck her with a blow. — Eudora Welty

I get a moral satisfaction out of putting things together. — Eudora Welty

Southerners love a good tale. They are born reciters, great memory retainers, diary keepers, letter exchangers ... great talkers. — Eudora Welty

Plots are ... what the writer sees with. — Eudora Welty

I've said what I had to say. — Eudora Welty

Each story tells me how to write it, but not the one afterwards. — Eudora Welty

She read Dickens in the same spirit she would have eloped with him. — Eudora Welty

It's our turn! she'd thought exultantly. And we're going to live forever. — Eudora Welty

Writers and travelers are mesmerized alike by knowing of their destinations. — Eudora Welty

A thing is incredible, if ever, only after it is told
returned to the world it came out of. — Eudora Welty

The strands are all there; to the memory nothing is ever lost. — Eudora Welty

If you haven't surprised yourself, you haven't written. — Eudora Welty

Integrity can be neither lost nor concealed nor faked nor quenched nor artificially come by nor outlived, nor, I believe, in the long run, denied. — Eudora Welty

For there is hate as well as love, she supposed, in the coming together and continuing of our lives. — Eudora Welty

Only the writing of fiction keeps fiction alive. — Eudora Welty

By the essence of their nature, which was frail, all human beings were probably doomed to be seasick. — Eudora Welty

Welcome!" I said - the most dangerous word in the world. — Eudora Welty

Just now they kissed, with India coming up close on her toes to see if she could tell yet what there was about a kiss. — Eudora Welty

It's always taken a lot out of me, being smart. — Eudora Welty

I have been told, both in approval and in accusation, that I seem to love all my characters. — Eudora Welty

One place comprehended can make us understand other places better. — Eudora Welty

Don't want to do a thing, Ran, do we, from now and on till evermore. — Eudora Welty

For the night was not impartial. No, the night loved some more than others, served some more than others. — Eudora Welty

Suppose you meet me in the woods. — Eudora Welty

It was in a place where the days would go by and surprise anyone that they were over. — Eudora Welty

I had to grow up and learn to listen for the unspoken as well as the spoken-and to know a truth. — Eudora Welty

At the time of writing, I don't write for my friends or myself either; I write for it, for the pleasure of it. — Eudora Welty

For he was not strong enough to receive the impact of unfamiliar things without a little talk to break their fall. — Eudora Welty

Beauty is not a means, not a way of furthering a thing in the world. It is a result; it belongs to ordering, to form, to aftereffect. — Eudora Welty

Human life is fiction's only theme. — Eudora Welty

It doesn t matter if it takes a long time getting there; the point is to have a destination. — Eudora Welty

A good snapshot stops a moment from running away. — Eudora Welty

Out of love you can speak with straight fury. — Eudora Welty

The excursion is the same when you go looking for your sorrow as when you go looking for your joy. — Eudora Welty

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

For her life, any life, she had to believe, was nothing but the continuity of its love. — Eudora Welty

He did not like illness, he distrusted it, as he distrusted the road without signposts.
("Death Of A Traveling Salesman") — Eudora Welty

I learned from the age of two or three that any room in our house, at any time of day, was there to read in, or be read to. — Eudora Welty

He loved happiness like I love tea. — Eudora Welty

When I was twelve, I started reading Eudora Welty, Thomas Wolfe, Flannery O'Connor, James Agee, and - do we dare breathe the name - William Faulkner. — Frances Mayes

The mystery in how little we know of other people is no greater than the mystery of how much, Laurel thought. — Eudora Welty

In the end, it takes phenomenal neatness of housekeeping to put it through the heads of men that they are swine. — Eudora Welty

The novelist works neither to correct nor to condone, not at all to comfort, but to make what's told alive. — Eudora Welty

I'm a great reader that never has time to read. — Eudora Welty

Time is anonymous; when we give it a face, it's the same face the world over. — Eudora Welty

One place understood helps us understand all places better — Eudora Welty

Relationship is a pervading and changing mystery ... brutal or lovely, the mystery waits for people wherever they go, whatever extreme they run to. — Eudora Welty

I like the feeling of being able to confront an experience and resolve it as art. — Eudora Welty

Beware of a man with manners. — Eudora Welty

Look for where the sky is brightest along the horizon. That reflects the nearest river. Strike out for a river and you will find habitation. — Eudora Welty

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. — Eudora Welty

I wanted to read immediately. The only fear was that of books coming to an end. — Eudora Welty

Fantasy is no good unless the seed it springs from is a truth, a truth about human beings. — Eudora Welty

A plot is a thousand times more unsettling than an argument, which may be answered. — Eudora Welty

And who could ever remember any of the things he says? They are just inspired remarks that roll out of his mouth like smoke. — Eudora Welty

At the sting in her eyes, she remembered for him that there must be no tears in his. — Eudora Welty

A good snapshot keeps a moment from running away. — Eudora Welty

To imagine yourself inside another person ... is what a storywriter does in every piece of work; it is his first step, and his last too, I suppose. — Eudora Welty

The difficulty that accompanies you is less like the dark than a trusted lantern to see your way by. — Eudora Welty

All serious daring starts from within. — Eudora Welty

A story is not the same thing when it ends as it was when it began. — Eudora Welty

The first thing we see about a short story is its mystery. And in the best short stories, we return at the last to see mystery again — Eudora Welty

How to explain Time and Separateness back to God, Who had never thought of them, Who could let the whole world come to grief in a scattering moment? — Eudora Welty

What we know about writing the novel is the novel. — Eudora Welty

Grandma Ponder said, Show me a man wears a diamond ring, and I'll show you a wife beater. — Eudora Welty

Even if you have kept silent for the sake of the dead, you cannot rest in your silence, as the dead rest. — Eudora Welty

He looked home-made, as though his wife had self-consciously knitted or somehow contrived a husband when she sat alone at night. — Eudora Welty

Never think you've seen the last of anything. — Eudora Welty

Any room in our house at any time in the day was there to read in or to be read to. — 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. — Eudora Welty

I was always my own teacher. — Eudora Welty

We are the breakers of our own hearts — Eudora Welty

Reading Chekhov was just like the angels singing to me. — Eudora Welty

Through travel I first became aware of the outside world; it was through travel that I found my own introspective way into becoming a part of it. — Eudora Welty

All good writers speak in honest voices and tell the truth. — Eudora Welty

The greatest mystery is unsheathed reality itself. — Eudora Welty

The fictional eye sees in, through, and around what is really there. — Eudora Welty

To open up the new, to look back on the old may bring forth like discoveries in the practice of art. — Eudora Welty

All experience is an enrichment rather than an impoverishment. — Eudora Welty

Could she ever be, would she be, where she was going? — Eudora Welty

The Awakening, by Kate Chopin, and The Optimist's Daughter, by Eudora Welty. — Cheryl Strayed

I think that as you learn more about writing you learn to be direct. — Eudora Welty

When somebody, no matter who, gives everything, it makes people feel ashamed for him. — Eudora Welty

Passion is our ground, our island - do others exist? — Eudora Welty

Travel itself is part of some longer continuity. — Eudora Welty

The mystery lies in the use of language to express human life. — Eudora Welty

No art ever came out of not risking your neck. — Eudora Welty

I don't know whether I could do either one, reading or writing, without the other — Eudora Welty

Location pertains to feelings - feelings are bound up in place. — Eudora Welty

As soon as a man stopped wandering
and stood still an looked around him,
he found a god in that place. — Eudora Welty

Daydreaming had started me on the way; but story writing once I was truly in its grip, took me and shook me awake. — Eudora Welty

There is absolutely everything in great fiction but a clear answer. — Eudora Welty