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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
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
A thing is incredible, if ever, only after it is told returned to the world it came out of. — Eudora Welty
If you haven't surprised yourself, you haven't written.
— 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
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
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
A good snapshot stops a moment from running away.
— 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
The mystery in how little we know of other people is no greater than the mystery of how much, Laurel thought.
— 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
In the end, it takes phenomenal neatness of housekeeping to put it through the heads of men that they are swine.
— Eudora Welty
He loved happiness like I love tea.
— Eudora Welty
For her life, any life, she had to believe, was nothing but the continuity of its love.
— 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
Beware of a man with manners.
— Eudora Welty
I'm a great reader that never has time to read.
— 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
A good snapshot keeps a moment from running away.
— Eudora Welty
One place understood helps us understand all places better
— 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
Fantasy is no good unless the seed it springs from is a truth, a truth about human beings.
— 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
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
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
All good writers speak in honest voices and tell the truth.
— Eudora Welty
The greatest mystery is unsheathed reality itself.
— 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
Could she ever be, would she be, where she was going?
— 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
No art ever came out of not risking your neck.
— Eudora Welty
