"Memory lived not in initial possession but in the freed hands, pardoned and freed, and in the heart that can empty but fill again, in the patterns res...










A good snapshot keeps a moment from running away.
More Eudora Welty quotes
"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 li...
"On the train I saw that world passing my window. It was when I came to see it was I who was passing that my self-centered childhood was over. But it w...
"I'm prepared now to use the wonderful word confluence, which of itself exists as a reality and a symbol in one. It is the only kind of symbol that for...
"The camera was a hand-held auxiliary of wanting-to-know. It had more than information and accuracy to teach me. I learned in the doing how ready I had...



