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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.

— Eudora Welty On Writing (2002)

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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.

On Writing (2002)

She has spent her life trying to escape from the parlor-like jaws of self-consciousness. ("Old Mr. Marblehall")

A Curtain Green and Other Stories (1941)

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