Eudora Alice Welty (1909–2001) was an American short story writer and novelist who wrote about the American South. Her novel The Optimist’s Daughter won the Pulitzer Prize in 1973. Welty was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom, among numerous awards including the Order of the South. She was the first living author to have her works published by the Library of America. Her house in Jackson, Mississippi has been designated as a National Historic Landmark and is open to the public as a house museum.
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Integrity can neither be lost nor concealed nor faked nor quenched nor artificially come by nor outlived nor, I believe, in the long run denied.
—Eudora Welty
Topics: Honor
Never think you’ve seen the last of anything.
—Eudora Welty
Learning to write may be part of learning to read. For all I know, writing comes out of a superior devotion to reading.
—Eudora Welty
A good snapshot stops a moment from running away.
—Eudora Welty
Topics: One liners, Photography
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.
—Eudora Welty
Childhood’s learning is made up of moments. It isn’t steady. It’s a pulse.
—Eudora Welty
Topics: Learning
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.
—Eudora Welty
Topics: Risk, Courage
The excursion is the same when you go looking for your sorrow as when you go looking for your joy.
—Eudora Welty
Topics: Success, Attitude, Sorrow
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