“All serious daring starts from within.”
Fonte: On Writing (2002)
Eudora Alice Welty was an American short story writer and novelist who wrote about the American South. Her novel The Optimist's Daughter won the Pulitzer Prize in 1973. Welty received numerous awards, including the Presidential Medal of Freedom and the Order of the South. She was the first living author to have her works published by the Library of America. Her house in Jackson, Mississippi, has been designated as a National Historic Landmark and is open to the public as a house museum. Wikipedia

“All serious daring starts from within.”
Fonte: On Writing (2002)
Eudora Welty livro One Writer's Beginnings
One Writer's Beginnings(1984)
Contexto: It had been startling and disappointing to me to find out that story books had been written by people, that books were not natural wonders, coming up of themselves like grass. Yet regardless of where they came from, I cannot remember a time when I was not in love with them -- with the books themselves, cover and binding and the paper they were printed on, with their smell and their weight and with their possession in my arms, captured and carried off to myself.
Eudora Welty livro One Writer's Beginnings
Fonte: One Writer's Beginnings
“She read Dickens in the same spirit she would have eloped with him.”
Eudora Welty livro One Writer's Beginnings
Fonte: One Writer's Beginnings
Eudora Welty livro The Optimist's Daughter
Fonte: The Optimist's Daughter
“If you're so smart, why ain't you rich?”
"Petrified Man", 1941
On Writing (2002)
On Writing (2002)
On Writing (2002)
Eudora Welty livro The Optimist's Daughter
The Optimist's Daughter(1972)