Eudora Welty Quotes (26 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.

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

Long before I wrote stories, I listened for stories. Listening for them is something more acute than listening to them. When their elders sit and begin, children are just waiting and hoping for one to come out, like a mouse from its hole.

As for her being a Maiden Aunt, ... striking ability to charm the opposite sex.

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

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.

Beware of a man with manners.

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.

would give Welty the distance from which to assess a sheltered past and the courage to move beyond the self-consciously clever or openly derivative poems and stories of her youth.

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

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.

She was a perfect lady - just sat in her seat and stared

She was a cosmopolitan woman still expecting to encounter and savor something new and unusual, still filled with the joy of seeing and hearing and writing.

All serious daring starts from within.

What I do in the writing of any character is to try to enter into the mind, heart and skin of a human being who is not myself. It is the act of a writer's imagination that I set the most high.

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.

I believe in it, and I trust it too and treasure it above everything, the personal, the personal, the personal I put my faith in it not only as the source, the ground of meaning in art, in life, but as the meaning itself.

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.

A good snapshot stops a moment from running away.

When I was a child and the snow fell, my mother always rushed to the kitchen and made snow ice cream and divinity fudge-egg whites, sugar and pecans, mostly. It was a lark then and I always associate divinity fudge with snowstorms.

House said to Finesse, not even trying to mask the irritation in his voice. ''Can't we go into the schoolhouse -- Frances

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.

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.

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

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

Never think you've seen the last of anything.