Eudora Welty

"Writing is the act of discovery."

"One place comprehended can make us understand other places better."

"The mind that is wise moistens the roots of the future."

"All serious daring starts from within."

"It is the function of art to renew our perception of the world."

"Love is a growing, is a searching, is an opening."

"A writer is a person who has taught their mind to work in isolation."

"The writer's eye is always upon himself."

"Real life is not constituted by external events."

"You can date the evolving gap between Americans' rising health consciousness and poor health outcomes to sometime in the 1960s."

"It seems plain that the writing of imaginative literature, in which the human heart can be seen in operation, is the greatest help we can offer to psychological understanding."

"The short story is a form that has to be self-evident."

"A sheltered life can teach us more about the world than a life of exertion."

"Place is the crossroads of circumstance."

"Fiction is a direct way of telling the truth."

"Knowing who you are is what matters."

"The outside world is only real when it reflects something within us."

"There is something in the human spirit that will survive and prevail."

"Memory is something we have in common."

"The great thing about family is that it endures."

"Travel is the most private of pleasures."

"The depth of friendship does not depend on length of acquaintance."

"Education is important but intelligence isn't everything."

"To write something you have to love it."

"It is the provincial who is timid in the face of strangeness."

"A life of learning comes to us all."

"The past is not dead, it is alive in us."

"Luck is a gift of others, but never the foundation of achievement."

"Every character is the hero of their own story."

"Gratitude is the luckiest of graces."