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Eudora Welty
American
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About the author
Beware of a man with manners.
Eudora Welty,
American
Author
#Man
#Manners
The excursion is the same when you go looking for your sorrow as when you go looking for your joy.
Eudora Welty,
American
Author
#Sorrow
#Joy
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.
Eudora Welty,
American
Author
#Time
#Order
#Events
Never think you've seen the last of anything.
Eudora Welty,
American
Author
A good snapshot stops a moment from running away.
Eudora Welty,
American
Author
#Running
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,
American
Author
#Life
#Writer
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.
Eudora Welty,
American
Author
#People
#Books
#Wonders
All serious daring starts from within.
Eudora Welty,
American
Author
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.
Eudora Welty,
American
Author
#Will
#Being
A sheltered life can be a daring life as well. For all serious daring starts from within.
Eudora Welty,
American
Author
#Life
Writers and travelers are mesmerized alike by knowing of their destinations.
Eudora Welty,
American
Author
#Writers
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.
Eudora Welty,
American
Author
#World
#First
#Travel
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.
Eudora Welty,
American
Author
#Work
#First
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.
Eudora Welty,
American
Author
#Respect
#Writing
#Sense
#Fiction
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.
Eudora Welty,
American
Author
#Life
#Experience
#Writing
#Writer
#Cause
#Effect