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 More Quotes by Eudora Welty More Quotes From Eudora Welty 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. Eudora Welty honesty photography art I think that as you learn more about writing you learn to be direct. Eudora Welty direct writing thinking The very greatest mystery is in unsheathed reality itself. Eudora Welty mystery reality For the night was not impartial. No, the night loved some more than others, served some more than others. Eudora Welty night Each day the storm clouds were opening like great purple flowers and pouring out their dark thunder. Each nightfall, the storm was laid down on their houses like a burden the day had carried. Eudora Welty flower dark clouds Time is anonymous; when we give it a face, it's the same face the world over. Eudora Welty time giving world Fiction shows us the past as well as the present moment in mortal light; it is an art served by the indelibility of our memory, and one empowered by a sharp and prophetic awareness of what is ephemeral. It is by the ephemeral that our feeling is so strongly aroused for what endures. Eudora Welty writing memories art Travel itself is part of some longer continuity. Eudora Welty continuity travel Human life is fiction's only theme. Eudora Welty human-life life-is fiction Each story tells me how to write it, but not the one afterwards. Eudora Welty stories writing Greater than scene is situation. Greater than situation is implication. Greater than all of these is a single, entire human being, who will never be confined in any frame. Eudora Welty situation scene humans I get a moral satisfaction out of putting things together. Eudora Welty moral satisfaction together 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 waiting running people My mother read secondarily for information; she sank as a hedonist into novels. She read Dickens in the spirit in which she would have eloped with him. Eudora Welty information reading mother Children, like animals use all their senses to discover the world. Then artists come along and discover it the same way...Or now and then we'll hear from an artisit who's never lost it. Eudora Welty artist animal children My main disappointment was always that a book had to end. And then what? But I don't think I was ever disappointed by the books. I must have been what any author would consider an ideal reader. I felt every pain and pleasure suffered or enjoyed by all the characters. Oh, but I identified! Eudora Welty pain disappointment book Learning stamps you with its moments. Childhood's learning is made up of moments. It isn't steady. It's a pulse. Eudora Welty pulse childhood learning I was always my own teacher. Eudora Welty my-own learning teacher Passion is our ground, our island - do others exist? Eudora Welty passion islands Ever since I was first read to, then started reading to myself, there has never been a line read that I didn't hear. As my eyes followed the sentence, a voice was saying it silently to me. It isn't my mother's voice, or the voice of any person I can identify, certainly not my own. It is human, but inward, and it is inwardly that I listen to it. It is to me the voice of the story or the poem itself. Eudora Welty eye reading mother
