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"The Collected Stories of Eudora Welty" Quotes
"The Collected Stories of Eudora Welty" is a compilation of short stories that explore the complexities of Southern life, human relationships, and the nuances of everyday experience with wit and compassion.
southern states | 642 pages | Published in 2001
Quotes
The mystery in how little we know of other people is no greater than the mystery of how much, sometimes, we can know.
The excursion is the same when you go looking for your sorrow as when you go looking for your joy.
A good snapshot keeps a moment from running away.
Southerners love a good tale. They are born reciters, great memory retainers, diary keepers, letter exchangers, and letter savers, history preservers, and history makers, and anecdote amassers.
All serious daring starts from within.
Writers and travelers are mesmerized alike by knowing of their destinations.
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.
The events in our lives happen in a sequence in time, but in their significance to ourselves they find their own order.
Every story would be another story, and unrecognizable if it took up its characters and plot and happened somewhere else.
It is our inward journey that leads us through time – forward or back, seldom in a straight line, most often spiraling.