Quotes by Eudora Welty

Eudora Welty

[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.

Accepted

Ordinary World

Strange

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A good snapshot stops a moment from running away.

Photography

Running

Snapshots

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

Curiosity

Freedom

Happiness

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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.

Character

Insightful

Trying

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A story is not the same thing when it ends as it was when it began.

Ends

Stories

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

Ifs

Incredibles

World

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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.

Fire

Sky

Tree

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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.

Now And Then

Surprise

World

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All experience is an enrichment rather than an impoverishment.

Enrichment

Experience

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All good writers speak in honest voices and tell the truth.

Honest

Speak

Voice

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