Eudora Welty Quotes


"The excursion is the same when you go looking for your sorrow as when you go looking for your joy."
- Eudora Welty
(Related: Joy, Sorrow)

"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
(Related: Time, Events, Order)

"Never think you've seen the last of anything."
- Eudora Welty
"A good snapshot stops a moment from running away."
- Eudora Welty
(Related: 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
(Related: 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
(Related: People, Books, Wonders)

"All serious daring starts from within."
- Eudora Welty
"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
(Related: Being, Will)

"A sheltered life can be a daring life as well. For all serious daring starts from within."
- Eudora Welty
(Related: Life)

"Writers and travelers are mesmerized alike by knowing of their destinations."
- Eudora Welty
(Related: 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
(Related: Travel, First, World)

"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
(Related: 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
(Related: Fiction, Respect, Sense, Writing)

"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
(Related: Life, Experience, Cause, Effect, Writer, Writing)