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Quotes from her Preface to The Collected Stories — Eudora Welty

1909–2001 United States

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What I do in the writing of any character is to try to enter into the mind, heart and skin of a human being who is not myself. Whether this happens to be a man or a woman, old or young, with skin black or white, the primary challenge lies in making the jump itself. It is the act of a writer's imagination that I set most high.

her Preface to The Collected Stories (1980)

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