A good snapshot stops a moment from running away.
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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.Eudora Welty
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
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.
Eudora Welty
All serious daring starts from within.
Eudora Welty
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.
Eudora Welty
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.
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