Author: Eudora Welty

Quotes

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.

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

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.

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

All serious daring starts from within.

All serious daring starts from within.

- 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.

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

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.

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

A good snapshot stops a moment from running away.

A good snapshot stops a moment from running away.

- Eudora Welty

The excursion is the same when you go looking for your sorrow as when you go looking for your joy.

The excursion is the same when you go looking for your sorrow as when you go looking for your joy.

- Eudora Welty

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.

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

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