it doesn t matter if it takes a long time getting there; the point is to have a destination. Eudora Welty More Quotes by Eudora Welty More Quotes From 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 now-and-thensurpriseworld [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-worldacceptedstrange 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-friendspleasurewriting 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 voicewritingbook 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 insightfultryingcharacter What we know about writing the novel is the novel. Eudora Welty novelknowswriting Fantasy is no good unless the seed it springs from is a truth, a truth about human beings. Eudora Welty fantasyhumansspring 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 citieswritingcharacter Writers and travelers are mesmerized alike by knowing of their destinations. Eudora Welty travelerdestinationknowing To open up the new, to look back on the old may bring forth like discoveries in the practice of art. Eudora Welty practicediscoveryart 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 vaguenesscloudswriting Making reality real is art's responsibility. Eudora Welty realresponsibilityart 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 abidingrespectwriting 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 treasurebelieveart 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 beautymeanworld Long before I wrote stories, I listened for stories. Eudora Welty storieslongfiction Every story teaches you how to write that story but not the next story. Eudora Welty nextstorieswriting 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-shortlastsstories Any room in our house at any time in the day was there to read in or to be read to. Eudora Welty houserooms
