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
Beware of a man with manners.
From the first I was clamorous to learn ...
Learning stamps you with its moments. Childhood's learning is made up of moments. It isn't steady. It's a pulse.
Suppose you meet me in the woods.
The excursion is the same when you go looking for your sorrow as when you go looking for your joy.
For the source of the short story is usually lyrical. And all writers speak from, and speak to, emotions eternally the same in all of us: love, pity, terror do not show favorites or leave any of us out.
Time is anonymous; when we give it a face, it's the same face the world over.
Travel itself is part of some longer continuity.
[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.
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.