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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

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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

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

— Eudora Welty

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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

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Looking back, I understand that I was teaching myself to write. ↗

— Mary Wesley

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I don't write for any particular kind of person. ↗

— Mary Wesley

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In my eighties, my best friends are in their fifties, and I have many friends at university. It keeps one young, and up with the vocabulary. That's terribly important, especially for a writer. ↗

— Mary Wesley

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Writing Part of the Scenery has been a very different experience. I have been reminded of people and events, real and imaginary which have been part of my life. This book is a celebration of the land which means so much to me. ↗

— Mary Wesley

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Faithfulness to the past can be a kind of death above ground. Writing of the past is a resurrection; the past then lives in your words and you are free. ↗

— Jessamyn West

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Talent is helpful in writing, but guts are absolutely necessary. ↗

— Jessamyn West

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