Eudora Welty

Nació 1909 · Murió 2001

De Jackson, Mississippi, United States · Nacionalidad: United States · Escribe ficción

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“Great fiction shows us not how to conduct our behavior but how to feel. Eventually, it may show us how to face our feelings and face our actions and to have new inklings about what they mean.”
"Must the Novelist Crusade?"En inglés
“Each day the storm clouds were opening like great purple flowers and pouring out their dark thunder. Each nightfall, the storm was laid down on their houses like a burden the day had carried.”
The Wide Net and Other StoriesEn inglés
“happiness, [he] knew, is something that appears to you suddenly, that is meant for you, a thing which you reach for and pick up and hide at your breast, a shiny thing that reminds you of something alive and leaping.”
A Curtain Green and Other StoriesEn inglés
“Laurel could not see her face but only the back of her neck, the most vulnerable part of anybody, and she thought: Is there any sleeping person you can be entirely sure you have not misjudged?”
The Optimist's DaughterEn inglés
“How can you go out on a limb if you do not know your own tree? No art ever came out of not risking your neck.”
On WritingEn inglés

Los libros de Eudora Welty en el orden en que se publicaron, de A Curtain of Green (1941) a Eudora Welty as Photographer (2009).