261 Quotes by Eudora Welty

Long before I wrote stories, I listened for stories.

Fantasy is no good unless the seed it springs from is a truth, a truth about human beings.

Learning stamps you with its moments. Childhood's learning is made up of moments. It isn't steady. It's a pulse.

[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.

What we know about writing the novel is the novel.

Dialogue has to show not only something about the speaker that is its own revelation, but also maybe something about the speaker that he doesn't know but the other character does know.

There's still a strange moment with every book when I move from the position of writer to the position of reader and I suddenly see my words with the eyes of the cold public. It gives me a terrible sense of exposure, as if I'd gotten sunburned.

I believe in it, and I trust it too and treasure it above everything, the personal, the personal, the personal! I put my faith in it not only as the source, the ground of meaning in art, in life, but as the meaning itself.

Beware of a man with manners.