Eudora Welty
Eudora Welty
Eudora Alice Weltywas an American short story writer and novelist who wrote about the American South. Her novel The Optimist's Daughter won the Pulitzer Prize in 1973. Welty was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom, among numerous awards including the Order of the South. She was the first living author to have her works published by the Library of America. Her house in Jackson, Mississippi has been designated as a National Historic Landmark and is open to the public as...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth13 April 1909
CityJackson, MS
CountryUnited States of America
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When they turned off, it was still early in the pink and green fields. The fumes of morning, sweet and bitter, sprang up where they walked. The insects ticked softly, their strength in reserve; butterflies chopped the air, going to the east, and the birds flew carelessly and sang by fits and starts, not the way they did in the evening in sustained and drowsy songs.
A good snapshot stops a moment from running away.
Time is anonymous; when we give it a face, it's the same face the world over.
All experience is an enrichment rather than an impoverishment.
A thing is incredible, if ever, only after it is told -- returned to the world it came out of.
Is there any sleeping person you can be entirely sure you have not misjudged?
Passion is our ground, our island - do others exist?
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.
Travel itself is part of some longer continuity.
Beauty is not a means, not a way of furthering a thing in the world. It is a result; it belongs to ordering, to form, to aftereffect.
[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.
I'm not very eloquent about things like this, but I think that writing and photography go together. I don't mean that they are related arts, because they're not. But the person doing it, I think, learns from both things about accuracy of the eye, about observation, and about sympathy toward what is in front of you... It's about honesty, or truth telling, and a way to find it in yourself, how to need it and learn from it.
The first thing we see about a short story is its mystery. And in the best short stories, we return at the last to see mystery again
I get a moral satisfaction out of putting things together.