261 Quotes by Eudora Welty

I read library books as fast as I could go, rushing them home in the basket of my bicycle. From the minute I reached our house, I started to read. Every book I seized on, from “Bunny Brown and His Sister Sue at Camp Rest-a-While” to “Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea,” stood for the devouring wish to read being instantly granted. I knew this was bliss, knew it at the time. Taste isn’t nearly so important; it comes in its own time.

Is there any sleeping person you can be entirely sure you have not misjudged?

Suppose you meet me in the woods.

Each day the storm clouds were opening like great purple flowers and pouring out their dark thunder. Each nightfall, the storm was laid down on their houses like a burden the day had carried.

I get a moral satisfaction out of putting things together.

Out of love you can speak with straight fury.

The mystery lies in the use of language to express human life.

Beauty is not a means, not a way of furthering a thing in the world. It is a result; it belongs to ordering, to form, to aftereffect.

Every story teaches me how to write it. Unfortunately, it doesn't teach me how to write the next one.