Eudora Welty

Born 1909 · Died 2001

From Jackson, Mississippi, United States · Nationality: United States · Writes fiction

Quotes

“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?"
“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 Stories
“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 Stories
“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 Daughter
“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 Writing

Books by Eudora Welty in the order they were published, from Selected Stories of Eudora Welty (1936) to Eudora Welty as Photographer (2009).