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
To imagine yourself inside another person...is what a story writer does in every piece of work; it is his first step, and his last too, I suppose.
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?
All good writers speak in honest voices and tell the truth.
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.
Every story teaches me how to write it. Unfortunately, it doesn't teach me how to write the next one.
Out of love you can speak with straight fury.
When I read, I hear what's on the page. I don't know whose voice it is, but some voice is reading to me, and when I write my own stories, I hear it, too.
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.
Relationship is a pervading and changing mystery... brutal or lovely, the mystery waits for people wherever they go, whatever extreme they run to.
[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.