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Eudora Welty Quotes: "The excursion is the same when you go looking for your sorrow as when you go looking for your joy."

The excursion is the same when you go looking for your sorrow as when you go looking for your joy.



Eudora Welty Quotes: "My continuing passion is to part a curtain, that invisible veil of indifference that falls between us and that blinds us to each other's presence, each other's wonder, each other's human plight."

My continuing passion is to part a curtain, that invisible veil of indifference that falls between us and that blinds us to each other's presence, each other's wonder, each other's human plight.




Eudora Welty Quotes: "Southerners love a good tale. They are born reciters, great memory retainers, diary keepers, letter exchangers . . . great talkers."

Southerners love a good tale. They are born reciters, great memory retainers, diary keepers, letter exchangers . . . great talkers.



Eudora Welty Quotes: "Insight doesn't happen often on the click of the moment, like a lucky snapshot, but comes in its own time and more slowly and from nowhere but within."

Insight doesn't happen often on the click of the moment, like a lucky snapshot, but comes in its own time and more slowly and from nowhere but within.




Eudora Welty Quotes: "No art ever came out of not risking your neck."

No art ever came out of not risking your neck.



Eudora Welty Quotes: "We are the breakers of our own hearts"

We are the breakers of our own hearts



Eudora Welty Quotes: "The events in our lives happen in a sequence in time, but in their significance to ourselves they find their own order the continuous thread of revelation."

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




Eudora Welty Quotes: "it doesn t matter if it takes a long time getting there; the point is to have a destination."

it doesn t matter if it takes a long time getting there; the point is to have a destination.



Eudora Welty Quotes: "People are mostly layers of violence and tenderness wrapped like bulbs, and it is difficult to say what makes them onions or hyacinths."

People are mostly layers of violence and tenderness wrapped like bulbs, and it is difficult to say what makes them onions or hyacinths.



Eudora Welty Quotes: "To write honestly and with all our powers is the least we can do, and the most."

To write honestly and with all our powers is the least we can do, and the most.



Eudora Welty Quotes: "One place comprehended can make us understand other places better."

One place comprehended can make us understand other places better.



Eudora Welty Quotes: "A sheltered life can be a daring life as well. For all serious daring starts from within."

A sheltered life can be a daring life as well. For all serious daring starts from within.




Eudora Welty Quotes: "All experience is an enrichment rather than an impoverishment."

All experience is an enrichment rather than an impoverishment.



Eudora Welty Quotes: "If you haven't surprised yourself, you haven't written."

If you haven't surprised yourself, you haven't written.



Eudora Welty Quotes: "I like the feeling of being able to confront an experience and resolve it as art."

I like the feeling of being able to confront an experience and resolve it as art.



Eudora Welty Quotes: "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."

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 Quotes: "Indeed, learning to write may be part of learning to read. For all I know, writing comes out of a superior devotion to reading."

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 Quotes: "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."

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 Quotes: "Through travel I first became aware of the outside world; it was through travel that I found my own introspective way into becoming a part of it."

Through travel I first became aware of the outside world; it was through travel that I found my own introspective way into becoming a part of it.



Eudora Welty Quotes: "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."

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 Quotes: "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."

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 Quotes: "I had to grow up and learn to listen for the unspoken as well as the spoken-and to know a truth."

I had to grow up and learn to listen for the unspoken as well as the spoken-and to know a truth.



Eudora Welty Quotes: "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."

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 Quotes: "The first act of insight is throw away the labels."

The first act of insight is throw away the labels.



Eudora Welty Quotes: "One place understood helps us understand all places better"

One place understood helps us understand all places better



Eudora Welty Quotes: "There is absolutely everything in great fiction but a clear answer."

There is absolutely everything in great fiction but a clear answer.



Eudora Welty Quotes: "It had been startling and disappointing to me to find out that story books had been written by people, that books were not natural wonders, coming of themselves like grass."

It had been startling and disappointing to me to find out that story books had been written by people, that books were not natural wonders, coming of themselves like grass.



Eudora Welty Quotes: "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."

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 Quotes: "She read Dickens in the spirit in which she would have eloped with him."

She read Dickens in the spirit in which she would have eloped with him.



Eudora Welty Quotes: "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."

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 Quotes: "The strands are all there; to the memory nothing is ever lost."

The strands are all there; to the memory nothing is ever lost.



Eudora Welty Quotes: "Write about what you don't know about what you know."

Write about what you don't know about what you know.



Eudora Welty Quotes: "Never think you've seen the last of anything."

Never think you've seen the last of anything.



Eudora Welty Quotes: "Time is anonymous; when we give it a face, it's the same face the world over."

Time is anonymous; when we give it a face, it's the same face the world over.



Eudora Welty Quotes: "Out of love you can speak with straight fury."

Out of love you can speak with straight fury.



Eudora Welty Quotes: "Gardening is akin to writing stories. No experience could have taught me more about grief or flowers, about achieving survival by going, your fingers in the ground, the limit of physical exhaustion."

Gardening is akin to writing stories. No experience could have taught me more about grief or flowers, about achieving survival by going, your fingers in the ground, the limit of physical exhaustion.



Eudora Welty Quotes: "Relationship is a pervading and changing mystery... brutal or lovely, the mystery waits for people wherever they go, whatever extreme they run to."

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 Quotes: "I wanted to read immediately. The only fear was that of books coming to an end."

I wanted to read immediately. The only fear was that of books coming to an end.



Eudora Welty Quotes: "People give pain, are callous and insensitive, empty and cruel...but place heals the hurt, soothes the outrage, fills the terrible vacuum that these human beings make."

People give pain, are callous and insensitive, empty and cruel...but place heals the hurt, soothes the outrage, fills the terrible vacuum that these human beings make.



Eudora Welty Quotes: "Travel itself is part of some longer continuity."

Travel itself is part of some longer continuity.



Eudora Welty Quotes: "Writers and travelers are mesmerized alike by knowing of their destinations."

Writers and travelers are mesmerized alike by knowing of their destinations.



Eudora Welty Quotes: "Learning stamps you with its moments. Childhood's learning is made up of moments. It isn't steady. It's a pulse."

Learning stamps you with its moments. Childhood's learning is made up of moments. It isn't steady. It's a pulse.



Eudora Welty Quotes: "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."

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 Quotes: "Long before I wrote stories, I listened for stories. Listening for them is something more acute than listening to them."

Long before I wrote stories, I listened for stories. Listening for them is something more acute than listening to them.



Eudora Welty Quotes: "Location pertains to feelings - feelings are bound up in place."

Location pertains to feelings - feelings are bound up in place.



Eudora Welty Quotes: "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."

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 Quotes: "The novelist works neither to correct nor to condone, not at all to comfort, but to make what's told alive."

The novelist works neither to correct nor to condone, not at all to comfort, but to make what's told alive.



Eudora Welty Quotes: "I was always my own teacher."

I was always my own teacher.



Eudora Welty Quotes: "A thing is incredible, if ever, only after it is told -- returned to the world it came out of."

A thing is incredible, if ever, only after it is told -- returned to the world it came out of.