Quotes by Eudora Welty

• Beware of a man with manners.
• The excursion is the same when you go looking for your sorrow as when you go looking for your joy.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• All serious daring starts from within.
• 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.
• A sheltered life can be a daring life as well. For all serious daring starts from within.
• Writers and travelers are mesmerized alike by knowing of their destinations.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• Embrace the journey of self-discovery, for in becoming truly acquainted with yourself, you discover the world.