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.

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.

All serious daring starts from within.

A plot is a thousand times more unsettling than an argument, which may be answered.

The first act of insight is throw away the labels.

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.

The strands are all there; to the memory nothing is ever lost.

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.

The excursion is the same when you go looking for your sorrow as when you go looking for your joy.

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

Never think you've seen the last of anything.

A good snapshot stops a moment from running away.

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.

Insight doesn't happen often on the click of the moment, like a lucky snapshot, but comes in its own time and more slowly and from nowhere but within.

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.

Human life is fictions only theme.

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.

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

A good snapshot keeps a moment from running away.

A thing is incredible if ever only after it is told returned to the world it came out of.

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.

...all serious daring starts from within.

Beware of a man with manners.

A thing is incredible, if ever, only after it is told—returned to the world it came out of.