Quote for Today: Eudora Welty
Long before I wrote stories, I listened for stories. Listening for them is something more acute than listening to them. I suppose it’s an early form of participation in …
Quote for Today: Eudora Welty
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. This has …
Quote for Today: Eudora Welty
The events in our lives happen in a sequence in time, but in their significance to ourselves they find their own order, a timetable not necessarily – perhaps not possibly …
Quote for Today: Eudora Welty
She (my mother) stood always prepared in herself to challenge the world in our place. She did indeed tend to make the world look dangerous, and so it had …
Quote for Today: Eudora Welty
That summer lying in the long grass with my head propped up against the back of a saddle, with the zenith above me and the drop of distance below, I …
Quote for Today: Eudora Welty
Gardening is akin to writing stories. No experience could have taught me more about grief or flowers, about achieving survival by going, your fingers in the ground, the limit of …