{"author":"Eudora Welty","author_id":"Eudora+Welty","total_quotes":85,"quotes":[{"text":"All serious daring starts from within.","author":"Eudora Welty","tags":["serious","daring","within "],"id":9786,"author_id":"Eudora+Welty"},{"text":"A good snapshot keeps a moment from running away.","author":"Eudora Welty","tags":["memory","photography"],"id":13676,"author_id":"Eudora+Welty"},{"text":"What discoveries I made in the course of writing stories all begin with the particular, never the general. They are mostly hindsight: arrows that I now find I myself have left behind me, which have shown me some right, or wrong, way I have come. What one story may have pointed out to me is of no avail in the writing of another. But 'avail' is not what I want; freedom ahead is what each story promises - beginning anew. And all the while, as further hindsight has told me, certain patterns in my work repeat themselves without my realizing. There would be no way of knowing this, for during the writing of any single story, there is no other existing. Each writer must find out for himself, I imagine, on what basis he lives with his own stories.","author":"Eudora Welty","tags":["avail","beginning","discovery","freedom","hindsight","particular","patterns","right","stories","writing","wrong"],"id":15309,"author_id":"Eudora+Welty"},{"text":"No art ever came out of not risking your neck.","author":"Eudora Welty","tags":["writing-life","writing-process-writing-advice","writing"],"id":24535,"author_id":"Eudora+Welty"},{"text":"Through learning at my later date things I hadn't known, or had escaped or possibly feared realizing, about my parents - and myself - I glimpsed our whole family life as if it were freed of that clock time which spaces us apart so inhibitingly, divides young and old, keeps our living through the same experiences at separate distances. It is our inward journey that leads us through time - forward or back, seldom in a straight line, most often spiraling. Each of us is moving, changing, with respect to others. As we discover, we remember; remembering, we discover; and most intensely do we experience this when our separate journeys converge. Our living experience at those meeting points is one of the charged dramatic fields of fiction.","author":"Eudora Welty","tags":["changing","clock","converge","discover","freed","inward","journey","realizing","remember","separate","time"],"id":32444,"author_id":"Eudora+Welty"},{"text":"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 up of themselves like grass. Yet regardless of where they come from, I cannot remember a time when I was not in love with them -- with the books themselves, cover and binding and the paper they were printed on, with their smell and their weight and with their possession in my arms, captured and carried off to myself. Still illiterate, I was ready for them, committed to all the reading I could give them ...","author":"Eudora Welty","tags":["books","creativity","inspiration","literature","reading","storytelling","writing"],"id":36171,"author_id":"Eudora+Welty"},{"text":"Children  like animals  use all their senses to discover the world. Then artists come along and discover it the same way all over again.","author":"Eudora Welty","tags":["art","artist"],"id":39286,"author_id":"Eudora+Welty"},{"text":"It is not for nothing that an ominous feeling often attaches itself to a procession. In films and stories we see spectacles forming in the street and parades coming from around the corner, and we know to greet then with distrust and apprehension: their intent is still to be revealed.","author":"Eudora Welty","tags":["apprehension","distrust","film","intent","parade","procession","spectacle","stories","street"],"id":43681,"author_id":"Eudora+Welty"},{"text":"The excursion is the same when you go looking for your sorrow as when you go looking for your joy.","author":"Eudora Welty","tags":["attitude","life"],"id":49626,"author_id":"Eudora+Welty"},{"text":"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 to be. Life doesn't hold still. A good snapshot stopped a moment from running away. Photography taught me that to be able to capture transience, by being ready to click the shutter at the crucial moment, was the greatest need I had. Making pictures of people in all sorts of situations, I learned that every feeling waits upon its gesture, and I had to be prepared to recognize this moment when I saw it. These were things a writer needed to know. And I felt the need to hold transient life in words - there's so much more of life that only words can convey - strongly enough to last me as long as I lived. The direction my mind took was a writer's direction from the start, not a photographer's or a recorder's.","author":"Eudora Welty","tags":["camera","capture-transience","convey","crucial-moment","direction","feeling","gesture","photography","snapshot","still","words","writer"],"id":50103,"author_id":"Eudora+Welty"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":85,"pages":9,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}