Eudora Welty Quotes

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

  Eudora Welty

  Topics in Fear

  Tags in Books, Reading

• Human life is fiction’s only theme.

  Eudora Welty

  Topics in Life

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

  Eudora Welty

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Novelist

• 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

  Topics in Nature

• 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

  Topics in Inspirational

  Tags in Writing, Reading

• 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

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Writing, Fiction, Human, Lifetime

• 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

  Topics in Experience, Life

  Tags in Writer, Writing

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

  Eudora Welty

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Writer, Traveler, Destination

• To imagine yourself inside another person… is what a storywriter does in every piece of work; it is his first step, and his last too, I suppose.

  Eudora Welty

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Storywriter, Imagine, Yourself

• 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

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in World, Self, Travel, Introspective

• 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

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in People, Writing, Startling, Disappointing, Books, Reading

• 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.

  Eudora Welty

  Topics in Life, Uncategorized

  Tags in Writer

• 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

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Situation, Greater, Scene

• Beware of a man with manners.

  Eudora Welty

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Man, Manners

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

  Eudora Welty

  Topics in Life

• A good snapshot stops a moment from running away.

  Eudora Welty

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Snapshot, Moment

• Out of love you can speak with straight fury.

  Eudora Welty

  Tags in Introspection

• Never think you’ve seen the last of anything.

  Eudora Welty

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Security

• Children, like animals, use all their senses to discover the world. Then artists come along and discover it the same way all over again.

  Eudora Welty

  Topics in Art

  Tags in Artist

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

  Eudora Welty

  Topics in Grief, Joy, Life

Eudora Welty (21)

Birth:	13th April, 1909
Death:	23rd July, 2001
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Author, Photographer

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