Eudora Welty

Children, like animals use all their senses to discover the world. Then artists come along and discover it the same way...Or now and then we'll hear from an artisit who's never lost it. ↗

— Eudora Welty

#art

Gardening is akin to writing stories. No experience could have taught me more about grief or flowers, about achieving survival by going, your fingers in the ground, the limit of physical exhaustion. ↗

— Eudora Welty

#writing #experience

A whole tree of lightning stood in the sky. She kept looking out the window, suffused with the warmth from the fire and with the pity and beauty and power of her death. The thunder rolled. ↗

— Eudora Welty

#weltschmerz #beauty

Human life is fiction's only theme. ↗

— Eudora Welty

#fiction #writing #life

Writers and travelers are mesmerized alike by knowing of their destinations. ↗

— Eudora Welty

#destinations #knowing #mesmerized #their #travelers

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

#does #every #first #first step #his

A good snapshot stops a moment from running away. ↗

— Eudora Welty

#good #moment #running #running away #snapshot

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

— Eudora Welty

#life #serious #sheltered #starts #well

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

#being #confined #entire #frame #greater

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

#came #daring #i #i am #life