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CAROL WINDLEY When I was twelve, I started reading Eudora Welty, Thomas Wolfe, Flannery O'Connor, James Agee, ...
FRANCES MAYES Our most famous writers are Faulkner and Eudora Welty and Flannery O'Connor. It would make sense...
ROBERT MORGAN Eudora Welty's 'A Curtain of Green' had an enormous effect on me. But my early attempts ...
BARRY UNSWORTH![]()
I’m more of a one-time reader. There are so many good books waiting to be read, I’ll never go ba...
DEB BAKER![]()
I have always been a reader; I have read at every stage of my life, and there has never been a time ...
DIANE SETTERFIELD Every reader has found charms by which to secure possession of a page that, by magic, becomes as if ...
ALBERTO MANGUEL![]()
I was given the ability to create stories and characters. That's my part of the long chain of wr...
KARL MARLANTES![]()
Long books, when read, are usually overpraised, because the reader wishes to convince others and him...
E.M. FORSTER The excursion is the same when you go looking for your sorrow as when you go looking for your joy.
EUDORA WELTY For the night was not impartial. No, the night loved some more than others, served some more than ot...
EUDORA WELTY The events in our lives happen in a sequence in time, but in their significance to ourselves they fi...
EUDORA WELTY All serious daring starts from within.
EUDORA WELTY Through learning at my later date things I hadn't known, or had escaped or possibly feared realizing...
EUDORA WELTY It had been startling and disappointing to me to find out that story books had been written by peopl...
EUDORA WELTY Don't want to do a thing, Ran, do we, from now and on till evermore.
EUDORA WELTY Writers and travelers are mesmerized alike by knowing of their destinations.
EUDORA WELTY She was a perfect lady--just sat in her seat and stared.
EUDORA WELTY Integrity can be neither lost nor concealed nor faked nor quenched nor artificially come by nor outl...
EUDORA WELTY Writing fiction has developed in me an abiding respect for the unknown in a human lifetime and a sen...
EUDORA WELTY Through travel I first became aware of the outside world; it was through travel that I found my own ...
EUDORA WELTY I cannot remember a time when I was not in love with them--with the books themselves, cover and bind...
EUDORA WELTY They could play an endless game of hide-and -seek in so many rooms and up and down the halls that in...
EUDORA WELTY A good snapshot keeps a moment from running away.
EUDORA WELTY Greater than scene is situation. Greater than situation is implication. Greater than all of these is...
EUDORA WELTY His (my father's) general belief in life's well-being worked either way. 'Have you ever had it befor...
EUDORA WELTY Writing a story or a novel is one way of discovering sequence in experience, of stumbling upon cause...
EUDORA WELTY It took the mountain top, it seems to me now, to give me the sensation of independence. It was as if...
EUDORA WELTY It is not for nothing that an ominous feeling often attaches itself to a procession. In films and st...
EUDORA WELTY Writing a story or a novel is one way of discovering sequence in experience, of stumbling upon cause...
EUDORA WELTY Relationship is a pervading and changing mystery...brutal or lovely, the mystery waits for people wh...
EUDORA WELTY Beware of a man with manners.
EUDORA WELTY On Sundays, Presbyterians were not allowed to eat hot food or read the funny papers or travel the sh...
EUDORA WELTY It seems likely to me now that the very element in my character that took possession of me there on ...
EUDORA WELTY When one of us (children) caught measles or whooping cough and we were isolated in bad upstairs, we ...
EUDORA WELTY My father did not bring it up, but of course I knew that he had another reason to worry about my dec...
EUDORA WELTY The events in our lives happen in a sequence in time, but in their significance to ourselves they fi...
EUDORA WELTY Any room in our house at any time in the day was there to read in or to be read to.
EUDORA WELTY Taking trips tore all of us up inside, for they seemed, each journey away from home, something that ...
EUDORA WELTY When my mother would tell me that she wanted me to have something because she as a child had never h...
EUDORA WELTY Writing a story or a novel is one way of discovering sequence in experience, of stumbling upon cause...
EUDORA WELTY A sheltered life can be a daring life as well. For all serious daring starts from within.
EUDORA WELTY She was a cosmopolitan woman still expecting to encounter and savor something new and unusual, still...
EUDORA WELTY House said to Finesse, not even trying to mask the irritation in his voice. ''Can't we go into the s...
EUDORA WELTY A good snapshot stops a moment from running away.
EUDORA WELTY She was a perfect lady - just sat in her seat and stared
EUDORA WELTY [As for her being a] Maiden Aunt, ... striking ability to charm the opposite sex.
EUDORA WELTY It had been startling and disappointing to me to find out that story books had been written by peopl...
EUDORA WELTY I'm prepared now to use the wonderful word confluence, which of itself exists as a reality and a sym...
EUDORA WELTY Never think you've seen the last of anything.
EUDORA WELTY Through travel I first became aware of the outside world; it was through travel that I found my own ...
EUDORA WELTY What I do in the writing of any character is to try to enter into the mind, heart and skin of a huma...
EUDORA WELTY Our Victrola stood in the diningroom. I was allowed to climb onto the seat of a diningroom chair to ...
EUDORA WELTY It was entirely taken for granted that there wasn't any lying in our family, and I was advanced in a...
EUDORA WELTY She (my mother) stood always prepared in herself to challenge the world in our place. She did indeed...
EUDORA WELTY The events in our lives happen in a sequence in time, but in their significance to ourselves they fi...
EUDORA WELTY I can't think I had much of a sense of humor as long as I remained the only child. When my brother E...
EUDORA WELTY A whole tree of lightning stood in the sky. She kept looking out the window, suffused with the warmt...
EUDORA WELTY I didn't hit other people or hit purposefully, I just hit. Some object would be at fault. My anger w...
EUDORA WELTY People are mostly layers of violence and tenderness wrapped like bulbs, and it is difficult to say w...
EUDORA WELTY All children in those small-town, unhurried days had a vast inner life going on in the movies. Child...
EUDORA WELTY What discoveries I made in the course of writing stories all begin with the particular, never the ge...
EUDORA WELTY She (my mother) could still recite them (the poems) in full when she was lying helpless and nearly b...
EUDORA WELTY On the train I saw that world passing my window. It was when I came to see it was I who was passing ...
EUDORA WELTY I am a writer who came of a sheltered life. A sheltered life can be a daring life as well. For all s...
EUDORA WELTY I've always been shy physically. This in part tended to keep me from rushing into things, including ...
EUDORA WELTY I am a writer who came from a sheltered life. A sheltered life can be a daring life as well. For all...
EUDORA WELTY In real life I fell easily under the spell of all traveling artists. En route to New Orleans, entert...
EUDORA WELTY A conscious act grew out of this by the time I began writing stories: getting my distance, a prerequ...
EUDORA WELTY He loved happiness like I love tea.
EUDORA WELTY It was examinations (in school) that drove my wits away, as all emergencies do. Being expected to me...
EUDORA WELTY It was not my intention - it never was - to invent a character who should speak for me, the author, ...
EUDORA WELTY As though what he did were the excuse for their own boredom then, and lack of concern.
He...
WELTY EUDORA To imagine yourself inside another person... is what a storywriter does in every piece of work; it i...
EUDORA WELTY My temperament and my instinct had told me alike that the author, who writes at his own emergency, r...
EUDORA WELTY The Waves.
EUDORA WELTY Eudora Welty singles out for praise Austen's "habit of seeing both sides of her own subject - of see...
EMILY AUERBACH I was a great reader of fairy tales. I tried to read the entire fairy tale section of the library.
BEVERLY CLEARY![]()
dont read my diary when im gone, ok im going to work now , when you wake up please read my diary, lo...
KURT COBAIN A Ritual to Read to Each Other
If you don’t know the kind of person I am
and...
WILLIAM STAFFORD![]()
He has never been known to use a word that might send a reader to the dictionary."
(on Ernest H...
WILLIAM FAULKNER![]()
Never write anything that does not give you great pleasure. Emotion is easily transferred from the w...
JOSEPH JOUBERT![]()
I suspect any serious reader has a first great book, just the way anybody has a first kiss.
MICHAEL CUNNINGHAM In a sense, there's a great truth to that, but, also I was a great reader.
A. E. VAN VOGT I am a Graham Greene fan - I'm just a ferocious reader. I read an awful lot when I get the time.
ANDREA RISEBOROUGH![]()
Curran's whore comes to visit us," Jarek said in accented English.
The three men laughed ...
ILONA ANDREWS![]()
If you would be a reader, read; if a writer,write
EPICTETUS![]()
You have to be a speedy reader because there’s so so much to read.
DR. SEUSS![]()
I'm very aware of the presence of a reader, and that probably is a reaction against a lot of poe...
BILLY COLLINS![]()
Personally, I am a hedonistic reader; I have never read a book merely because it was ancient. I read...
JORGE LUIS BORGES![]()
I wasn't a very discriminating reader. I read just about everything that came along.
CHARLES KURALT Never felt lyk im alone bcoz my soul always follows me dats wat make me feel im not alone & I"ll nev...
RAKSHAN BHANDARY In a sense, there's a great truth to that, but, also I was a great reader.
A. E. VAN VOGT Read. You can always talk with another reader.
RORKE DENVER Caroline is a voracious reader. She loves to read. If I was going to make a movie, I'd ask Caroline ...
JANE THORNE![]()
The one thing I regret is that I will never have time to read all the books I want to read.
FRANCOISE SAGAN The one thing I regret is that I will never have time to read all the books I want to read.
F. SAGAN![]()
I'm not a great reader, believe it or not. It's not the vocabulary - my father made me read ...
DAVID ROBINSON I was a big reader as a child. My father is a great book lover and a librarian, but he forbid me to ...
ASA LARSSON Let's read as if books were to disappear tomorrow!
GABRIELLE DUBOIS
CAROL WINDLEY When I was twelve, I started reading Eudora Welty, Thomas Wolfe, Flannery O'Connor, James Agee, ...
FRANCES MAYES Our most famous writers are Faulkner and Eudora Welty and Flannery O'Connor. It would make sense...
ROBERT MORGAN Eudora Welty's 'A Curtain of Green' had an enormous effect on me. But my early attempts ...
BARRY UNSWORTH
I’m more of a one-time reader. There are so many good books waiting to be read, I’ll never go ba... DEB BAKER
I have always been a reader; I have read at every stage of my life, and there has never been a time ... DIANE SETTERFIELD Every reader has found charms by which to secure possession of a page that, by magic, becomes as if ...
ALBERTO MANGUEL
I was given the ability to create stories and characters. That's my part of the long chain of wr... KARL MARLANTES
Long books, when read, are usually overpraised, because the reader wishes to convince others and him... E.M. FORSTER The excursion is the same when you go looking for your sorrow as when you go looking for your joy.
EUDORA WELTY For the night was not impartial. No, the night loved some more than others, served some more than ot...
EUDORA WELTY The events in our lives happen in a sequence in time, but in their significance to ourselves they fi...
EUDORA WELTY All serious daring starts from within.
EUDORA WELTY Through learning at my later date things I hadn't known, or had escaped or possibly feared realizing...
EUDORA WELTY It had been startling and disappointing to me to find out that story books had been written by peopl...
EUDORA WELTY Don't want to do a thing, Ran, do we, from now and on till evermore.
EUDORA WELTY Writers and travelers are mesmerized alike by knowing of their destinations.
EUDORA WELTY She was a perfect lady--just sat in her seat and stared.
EUDORA WELTY Integrity can be neither lost nor concealed nor faked nor quenched nor artificially come by nor outl...
EUDORA WELTY Writing fiction has developed in me an abiding respect for the unknown in a human lifetime and a sen...
EUDORA WELTY Through travel I first became aware of the outside world; it was through travel that I found my own ...
EUDORA WELTY I cannot remember a time when I was not in love with them--with the books themselves, cover and bind...
EUDORA WELTY They could play an endless game of hide-and -seek in so many rooms and up and down the halls that in...
EUDORA WELTY A good snapshot keeps a moment from running away.
EUDORA WELTY Greater than scene is situation. Greater than situation is implication. Greater than all of these is...
EUDORA WELTY His (my father's) general belief in life's well-being worked either way. 'Have you ever had it befor...
EUDORA WELTY Writing a story or a novel is one way of discovering sequence in experience, of stumbling upon cause...
EUDORA WELTY It took the mountain top, it seems to me now, to give me the sensation of independence. It was as if...
EUDORA WELTY It is not for nothing that an ominous feeling often attaches itself to a procession. In films and st...
EUDORA WELTY Writing a story or a novel is one way of discovering sequence in experience, of stumbling upon cause...
EUDORA WELTY Relationship is a pervading and changing mystery...brutal or lovely, the mystery waits for people wh...
EUDORA WELTY Beware of a man with manners.
EUDORA WELTY On Sundays, Presbyterians were not allowed to eat hot food or read the funny papers or travel the sh...
EUDORA WELTY It seems likely to me now that the very element in my character that took possession of me there on ...
EUDORA WELTY When one of us (children) caught measles or whooping cough and we were isolated in bad upstairs, we ...
EUDORA WELTY My father did not bring it up, but of course I knew that he had another reason to worry about my dec...
EUDORA WELTY The events in our lives happen in a sequence in time, but in their significance to ourselves they fi...
EUDORA WELTY Any room in our house at any time in the day was there to read in or to be read to.
EUDORA WELTY Taking trips tore all of us up inside, for they seemed, each journey away from home, something that ...
EUDORA WELTY When my mother would tell me that she wanted me to have something because she as a child had never h...
EUDORA WELTY Writing a story or a novel is one way of discovering sequence in experience, of stumbling upon cause...
EUDORA WELTY A sheltered life can be a daring life as well. For all serious daring starts from within.
EUDORA WELTY She was a cosmopolitan woman still expecting to encounter and savor something new and unusual, still...
EUDORA WELTY House said to Finesse, not even trying to mask the irritation in his voice. ''Can't we go into the s...
EUDORA WELTY A good snapshot stops a moment from running away.
EUDORA WELTY She was a perfect lady - just sat in her seat and stared
EUDORA WELTY [As for her being a] Maiden Aunt, ... striking ability to charm the opposite sex.
EUDORA WELTY It had been startling and disappointing to me to find out that story books had been written by peopl...
EUDORA WELTY I'm prepared now to use the wonderful word confluence, which of itself exists as a reality and a sym...
EUDORA WELTY Never think you've seen the last of anything.
EUDORA WELTY Through travel I first became aware of the outside world; it was through travel that I found my own ...
EUDORA WELTY What I do in the writing of any character is to try to enter into the mind, heart and skin of a huma...
EUDORA WELTY Our Victrola stood in the diningroom. I was allowed to climb onto the seat of a diningroom chair to ...
EUDORA WELTY It was entirely taken for granted that there wasn't any lying in our family, and I was advanced in a...
EUDORA WELTY She (my mother) stood always prepared in herself to challenge the world in our place. She did indeed...
EUDORA WELTY The events in our lives happen in a sequence in time, but in their significance to ourselves they fi...
EUDORA WELTY I can't think I had much of a sense of humor as long as I remained the only child. When my brother E...
EUDORA WELTY A whole tree of lightning stood in the sky. She kept looking out the window, suffused with the warmt...
EUDORA WELTY I didn't hit other people or hit purposefully, I just hit. Some object would be at fault. My anger w...
EUDORA WELTY People are mostly layers of violence and tenderness wrapped like bulbs, and it is difficult to say w...
EUDORA WELTY All children in those small-town, unhurried days had a vast inner life going on in the movies. Child...
EUDORA WELTY What discoveries I made in the course of writing stories all begin with the particular, never the ge...
EUDORA WELTY She (my mother) could still recite them (the poems) in full when she was lying helpless and nearly b...
EUDORA WELTY On the train I saw that world passing my window. It was when I came to see it was I who was passing ...
EUDORA WELTY I am a writer who came of a sheltered life. A sheltered life can be a daring life as well. For all s...
EUDORA WELTY I've always been shy physically. This in part tended to keep me from rushing into things, including ...
EUDORA WELTY I am a writer who came from a sheltered life. A sheltered life can be a daring life as well. For all...
EUDORA WELTY In real life I fell easily under the spell of all traveling artists. En route to New Orleans, entert...
EUDORA WELTY A conscious act grew out of this by the time I began writing stories: getting my distance, a prerequ...
EUDORA WELTY He loved happiness like I love tea.
EUDORA WELTY It was examinations (in school) that drove my wits away, as all emergencies do. Being expected to me...
EUDORA WELTY It was not my intention - it never was - to invent a character who should speak for me, the author, ...
EUDORA WELTY As though what he did were the excuse for their own boredom then, and lack of concern.
He...
WELTY EUDORA To imagine yourself inside another person... is what a storywriter does in every piece of work; it i...
EUDORA WELTY My temperament and my instinct had told me alike that the author, who writes at his own emergency, r...
EUDORA WELTY The Waves.
EUDORA WELTY Eudora Welty singles out for praise Austen's "habit of seeing both sides of her own subject - of see...
EMILY AUERBACH I was a great reader of fairy tales. I tried to read the entire fairy tale section of the library.
BEVERLY CLEARY
dont read my diary when im gone, ok im going to work now , when you wake up please read my diary, lo... KURT COBAIN A Ritual to Read to Each Other
If you don’t know the kind of person I am
and...
WILLIAM STAFFORD
He has never been known to use a word that might send a reader to the dictionary."(on Ernest H...
WILLIAM FAULKNER
Never write anything that does not give you great pleasure. Emotion is easily transferred from the w... JOSEPH JOUBERT
I suspect any serious reader has a first great book, just the way anybody has a first kiss. MICHAEL CUNNINGHAM In a sense, there's a great truth to that, but, also I was a great reader.
A. E. VAN VOGT I am a Graham Greene fan - I'm just a ferocious reader. I read an awful lot when I get the time.
ANDREA RISEBOROUGH
Curran's whore comes to visit us," Jarek said in accented English.The three men laughed ...
ILONA ANDREWS
If you would be a reader, read; if a writer,write EPICTETUS
You have to be a speedy reader because there’s so so much to read. DR. SEUSS
I'm very aware of the presence of a reader, and that probably is a reaction against a lot of poe... BILLY COLLINS
Personally, I am a hedonistic reader; I have never read a book merely because it was ancient. I read... JORGE LUIS BORGES
I wasn't a very discriminating reader. I read just about everything that came along. CHARLES KURALT Never felt lyk im alone bcoz my soul always follows me dats wat make me feel im not alone & I"ll nev...
RAKSHAN BHANDARY In a sense, there's a great truth to that, but, also I was a great reader.
A. E. VAN VOGT Read. You can always talk with another reader.
RORKE DENVER Caroline is a voracious reader. She loves to read. If I was going to make a movie, I'd ask Caroline ...
JANE THORNE
The one thing I regret is that I will never have time to read all the books I want to read. FRANCOISE SAGAN The one thing I regret is that I will never have time to read all the books I want to read.
F. SAGAN
I'm not a great reader, believe it or not. It's not the vocabulary - my father made me read ... DAVID ROBINSON I was a big reader as a child. My father is a great book lover and a librarian, but he forbid me to ...
ASA LARSSON Let's read as if books were to disappear tomorrow!
GABRIELLE DUBOIS
