Eudora Welty: Fiction

Eudora Welty was American author. Explore interesting quotes on fiction.
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“Great fiction shows us not how to conduct our behavior but how to feel. Eventually, it may show us how to face our feelings and face our actions and to have new inklings about what they mean. A good novel of any year can initiate us into our own new experience.”

Eudora Welty

On Writing (2002)

Behavior , Feeling

“The first act of insight is throw away the labels. In fiction, while we do not necessarily write about ourselves, we write out of ourselves, using ourselves; what we learn from, what we are sensitive to, what we feel strongly about--these become our characters and go to make our plots. Characters in fiction are conceived from within, and they have, accordingly, their own interior life; they are individuals every time.”

Eudora Welty

On Writing (2002)

Life , Feeling , Learning , Time

“The story and its analyses are not mirror-opposites of each other. They are not reflections, either one. Criticism indeed is an art, as a story is, but only the story is to some degree a vision; there is no explanation outside fiction for what the writer is learning to do.”

Eudora Welty

On Writing (2002)

Art , Learning

“Human life is fiction's only theme.”

Eudora Welty

On Writing (2002)

Life