Eudora-welty Quotes

We do need to bring to our writing, over and over again, all the abundance we possess. To be able, t...

For the source of the short story is usually lyrical. And all writers speak from, and speak to, emot...

Both reading and writing are experiences--lifelong-- in the course of which we who encounter words u...

Fiction shows us the past as well as the present moment in mortal light; it is an art served by the ...

Henry James said there isn't any difference between "the English novel" and "the American novel" sin...

Great fiction shows us not how to conduct our behavior but how to feel. Eventually, it may show us h...

Human life is fiction's only theme.

Art, though, is never the voice of a country; it is an even more precious thing, the voice of the in...

Long before I wrote stories, I listened for stories. Listening for them is something more acute than...

The fantasies of dying could be no stranger than the fantasies of living. Survival is perhaps the st...