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 More Quotes by Eudora Welty More Quotes From Eudora Welty If you haven't surprised yourself, you haven't written. Eudora Welty written ifs havens There is absolutely everything in great fiction but a clear answer. Eudora Welty clear answers fiction I like the feeling of being able to confront an experience and resolve it as art. Eudora Welty able feelings art Writing a story or a novel is one way of discovering sequence in experience, of stumbling upon cause and effect in the happenings of a writer's own life. Eudora Welty experience stories writing The first act of insight is throw away the labels. In fiction, while we do not necessarily write about ourselves, we write out of ourselves, using ourselves; what we learn from, what we are sensitive to, what we feel strongly about--these become our characters and go to make our plots. Characters in fiction are conceived from within, and they have, accordingly, their own interior life; they are individuals every time. Eudora Welty plot writing character A whole tree of lightning stood in the sky. She kept looking out the window, suffused with the warmth from the fire and with the pity and beauty and power of her death. The thunder rolled. Eudora Welty fire sky tree When they turned off, it was still early in the pink and green fields. The fumes of morning, sweet and bitter, sprang up where they walked. The insects ticked softly, their strength in reserve; butterflies chopped the air, going to the east, and the birds flew carelessly and sang by fits and starts, not the way they did in the evening in sustained and drowsy songs. Eudora Welty music song sweet I had to grow up and learn to listen for the unspoken as well as the spoken-and to know a truth. Eudora Welty wells growing-up growth Radio, sewing machine, bookends, ironing board and that great big piano lamp - peace, that's what I like. Butterbean vines planted all along the front where the strings are. Eudora Welty ironing-board women home All experience is an enrichment rather than an impoverishment. Eudora Welty enrichment experience 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 running integrity believe The strands are all there; to the memory nothing is ever lost. Eudora Welty strands lost memories I cannot remember a time when I was not in love with them--with the books themselves, cover and binding and the paper they were printed on, with their smell and their weight and with their possession in my arms, captured and carried off to myself. Eudora Welty library smell book 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 reading inspiring inspirational The challenge to writers today, I think, is not to disown any part of our heritage. Whatever our theme in writing, it is old and tried. Whatever our place, it has been visited by the stranger, it will never be new again. It is only the vision that can be new; but that is enough. Eudora Welty challenges writing thinking Art is never the voice of a country, it is an even more precious thing, the voice of the individual, doing its best to speak, not comfort of any sort, but truth. And the art that speaks it most unmistakably, most directly, most variously, most fully, is fiction. Eudora Welty voice country art She read Dickens in the spirit in which she would have eloped with him. Eudora Welty dickens spirit To imagine yourself inside another person...is what a story writer does in every piece of work; it is his first step, and his last too, I suppose. Eudora Welty story-writers doe writing Location pertains to feelings - feelings are bound up in place. Eudora Welty bounds location feelings I wanted to read immediately. The only fear was that of books coming to an end. Eudora Welty coming-to-an-end ends book
