Eudora Welty's Quotes
Born: 1909-04-13
Profession: Author
Nation: American
Biography of Eudora Welty
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.
Tags: Happen, Lives, TimeTo 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.
Tags: Another, Work, YourselfGreater 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.
Tags: Human, Single, SituationIt 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.
Tags: Books, Story, ThemselvesA sheltered life can be a daring life as well. For all serious daring starts from within.
Tags: Life, Serious, WithinI 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.
Tags: Life, Serious, WithinThe excursion is the same when you go looking for your sorrow as when you go looking for your joy.
Tags: Joy, Looking, SadWriting 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.
Tags: Experience, Life, WritingThrough 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.
Tags: Found, Outside, TravelWriters and travelers are mesmerized alike by knowing of their destinations.
Tags: Alike, Knowing, WritersWriting 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.
Tags: Human, Respect, WritingI like Sultana cookies - they are so, so, so good. I think the best in the world.
Tags: Best, Cookies, GoodI like to eat yogurt in the morning. It's easy and quick and available anywhere.
Tags: Easy, Eat, MorningI listen to a lot of different kinds of music and at the moment I listen a lot to house music.
Tags: House, Moment, MusicOnce I found a mouse under my bed in an apartment in Paris. I am terrified of mice! I couldn't sleep for days.
Tags: Days, Once, SleepI was discovered in Paris when I was there on a school trip at the age of 13. After that, my mom came in contact with Elite Amsterdam; then I started modeling.
Tags: Age, Mom, School