All EUDORA WELTY Quotes about “Writing”

“To write honestly and with all our powers is the least we can do, and the most.”
“Gardening is akin to writing stories. No experience could have taught me more about grief or flowers, about achieving survival by going, your fingers in the ground, the limit of physical exhaustion.”
“To imagine yourself inside another person...is what a story writer does in every piece of work; it is his first step, and his last too, I suppose.”
“Write about what you don't know about what you know.”
“The writing of a novel is taking life as it already exists, not to report it but to make an object, toward the end that the finished work might contain this life inside it and offer it to the reader. The essence will not be, of course, the same thing as the raw material; it is not even of the same family of things. The novel is something that never was before and will not be again.”
“The challenge to writers today, I think, is not to disown any part of our heritage. Whatever our theme in writing, it is old and tried. Whatever our place, it has been visited by the stranger, it will never be new again. It is only the vision that can be new; but that is enough.”
“No blur of inexactness, no cloud of vagueness, is allowable in good writing; from the first seeing to the last putting down, there must be steady lucidity and uncompromise of purpose.”
“What we know about writing the novel is the novel.”
“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.”
“Each story tells me how to write it, but not the one afterwards.”
“Every story teaches you how to write that story but not the next story.”
“Every story teaches me how to write it. Unfortunately, it doesn't teach me how to write the next one.”
“At the time of writing, I don't write for my friends or myself either; I write for it, for the pleasure of it.”

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