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

Categorized in : Character Writing Cities

Don't give anybody up." He stroked her. "Or leave anybody out. Me and you both left her out today, and I'm ashamed for us." "There just wasn't room in today for it ... He said, "There's room for everything, and time for everybody, if you take your day the way it comes along and try not to be much later than you can help."

trying giving way

The mystery in how little we know of other people is no greater than the mystery of how much, Laurel thought.

mystery littles people

The events of our lives happen in a sequence of time, but in their significance to ourselves, they find their own order.

When you see yourself in proportion -- as you're bound to do when you get some sense -- then you see how much greater what is real is than anything you can put down.

I am a writer who came of a sheltered life. A sheltered life can be a daring life as well. For all serious daring starts from within.

well i-am serious life