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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?

— Eudora Welty The Optimist's Daughter (1972)

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The novelist works neither to correct nor to condone, not at all to comfort, but to make what's told alive.

On Writing (2002)

All experience is an enrichment rather than an impoverishment.

One Writer's Beginnings (1984)

If you're so smart, why ain't you rich?

[he] said to her, "You will find that men who are generous the way he is generous have needs to match."

The Robber Bridegroom (1942)

Every writer, like everybody else, thinks he's living through the crisis of the ages. To write honestly and with all our powers is the least we can do, and the most.

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