“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...”
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The Pulitzer Prize-winning author sketches her early life and discusses growing up in the South and the effect of her family and surroundings on her work and personality
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Eudora Welty
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“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...”
“I learned from the age of two or three that any room in our house, at any time of day, was there to read in, or be read to.”
“Long before I wrote stories, I listened for stories. Listening for them is something more acute than listening to them. I suppose it’s an early form of participation in what goes on. Listeni...”