Quotes by : Eudora Welty

A conscious act grew out of this by the time I began writing stories: getting my distance, a prerequisite....

Don't want to do a thing, Ran, do we, from now and on till evermore.

On the train I saw that world passing my window. It was when I came to see it was I who was passing that....

That summer lying in the long grass with my head propped up against the back of a saddle, with the zenith....

A good snapshot keeps a moment from running away.

Memory lived not in initial possession but in the freed hands, pardoned and freed, and in the heart that....

She (my mother) could still recite them (the poems) in full when she was lying helpless and nearly blind,....

It seems likely to me now that the very element in my character that took possession of me there on top....

There was one story that anger certainly lit the fuse of. In the 1960's, in my home town of Jackson,....

In children's art class we sat in a ring of kindergarten chairs and drew three daffodils that had just....