Inspirational Quotes by Eudora Welty (American Short Story Writer)

Integrity can neither be lost nor concealed nor faked nor quenched nor artificially come by nor outlived nor, I believe, in the long run denied.
—Eudora Welty
Topics: Honor

Childhood’s learning is made up of moments. It isn’t steady. It’s a pulse.
—Eudora Welty
Topics: Learning

Never think you’ve seen the last of anything.
—Eudora Welty

The excursion is the same when you go looking for your sorrow as when you go looking for your joy.
—Eudora Welty
Topics: Success, Sorrow, Attitude

Learning to write may be part of learning to read. For all I know, writing comes out of a superior devotion to reading.
—Eudora Welty

A good snapshot stops a moment from running away.
—Eudora Welty
Topics: Photography, One liners

Writing a story or a novel is one way of discovering sequence in experience, of stumbling upon cause and effect in the happenings of a writer’s own life.
—Eudora Welty

I am a writer who came of a sheltered life. A sheltered life can be a daring life as well. For all serious daring starts from within.
—Eudora Welty
Topics: Courage, Risk

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