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 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 stories writing way 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 now-and-then surprise world [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. Eudora Welty ordinary-world accepted strange 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 my-friends pleasure writing My own words, when I am at work on a story, I hear too as they go, in the same voice that I hear when I read in books. When I write and the sound of it comes back to my ears, then I act to make changes. I have always trusted this voice. Eudora Welty voice writing book A short story is confined to one mood, to which everything in the story pertains. Characters, setting, time, events, are all subject to the mood. And you can try more ephemeral, more fleeting things in a story - you can work more by suggestion - than in a novel. Less is resolved, more is suggested, perhaps. Eudora Welty insightful trying character What we know about writing the novel is the novel. Eudora Welty novel knows writing Fantasy is no good unless the seed it springs from is a truth, a truth about human beings. Eudora Welty fantasy humans spring Once you're into a story everything seems to apply-what you overhear on a city bus is exactly what your character would say on the page you're writing. Wherever you go, you meet part of your story. Eudora Welty cities writing character Writers and travelers are mesmerized alike by knowing of their destinations. Eudora Welty traveler destination knowing To open up the new, to look back on the old may bring forth like discoveries in the practice of art. Eudora Welty practice discovery art No blur of inexactness, no cloud of vagueness, is allowable in good writing; from the first seeing to the last putting down, there must be steady lucidity and uncompromise of purpose. Eudora Welty vagueness clouds writing Making reality real is art's responsibility. Eudora Welty real responsibility art Writing fiction has developed in me an abiding respect for the unknown in a human lifetime and a sense of where to look for the threads, how to follow, how to connect, find in the thick of the tangle what clear line persists. Eudora Welty abiding respect writing Suppose you meet me in the woods. Eudora Welty woods I believe in it, and I trust it too and treasure it above everything, the personal, the personal, the personal! I put my faith in it not only as the source, the ground of meaning in art, in life, but as the meaning itself. Eudora Welty treasure believe art Long before I wrote stories, I listened for stories. Eudora Welty stories long fiction Every story teaches you how to write that story but not the next story. Eudora Welty next stories writing 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 best-short lasts stories Any room in our house at any time in the day was there to read in or to be read to. Eudora Welty house rooms
