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"A good snapshot stops a moment from running away."
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"We've been running a little behind schedule. But only by about 15 years or so."
"Try not thinking of peeling an orange. Try not imagining the juice running down your fingers, the soft inner part of the peel. The smell. Try and you can't. The brain doesn't process negatives."
"I never got to the point when I felt like running away from it all."
"When you've got eight or nine or ten cables running around with someone trying to operate them, it's too much."
"He really is terribly heavy going. Like running up hill in roller skates."
"Why couldn't Obama have picked somebody respectable as his running mate, you know, like John Kerry did?"
"To be the best, you need to spend hours and hours and hours running, hitting the speed bag, lifting weights and focusing on training."
"You have to keep running. I always believed I was going to be safe."
Explore more quotes by 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."
"To imagine yourself inside another person... is what a storywriter does in every piece of work; it is his first step, and his last too, I suppose."
"Greater than scene is situation. Greater than situation is implication. Greater than all of these is a single, entire human being, who will never be confined in any frame."
"The excursion is the same when you go looking for your sorrow as when you go looking for your joy."
"I am a writer who came of a sheltered life. A sheltered life can be a daring life as well. For all serious daring starts from within."
"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 of themselves like grass."
"Writing fiction has developed in me an abiding respect for the unknown in a human lifetime and a sense of where to look for the threads, how to follow, how to connect, find in the thick of the tangle what clear line persists."
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