261 Quotes by Eudora Welty

Here at his own home, inside his own front door, there was nobody who seemed to be taken by surprise at what had happened to Judge McKelva. Laurel seemed to remember that Presbyterians were good at this.

Laurel had watched him prune. Holding the shears in both hands, he performed a sort of weighty sarabande, with a lop for this side, then a lop for the other side, as though he were bowing to his partner, and left the bush looking like a puzzle.

There was a deep boom, like the rolling in of an ocean wave. The hearse door had been slammed shut.

Art is never the voice of a country, it is an even more precious thing, the voice of the individual, doing its best to speak, not comfort of any sort, but truth. And the art that speaks it most unmistakably, most directly, most variously, most fully, is fiction.

A good snapshot stops a moment from running away.

The strands are all there; to the memory nothing is ever lost.

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.

Time is anonymous; when we give it a face, it's the same face the world over.

A sheltered life can be a daring life as well. For all serious daring starts from within.