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.More Yudora Welty quotes [07/18/2011 11:07:45]

Through travel I first became aware of the outside world; it was through travel that I found my own introspective way into becoming a part of it.More Yudora Welty quotes [07/18/2011 11:07:07]

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.More Yudora Welty quotes [07/18/2011 11:07:41]

Beware of a man with manners.More Yudora Welty quotes [07/18/2011 11:07:18]

The excursion is the same when you go looking for your sorrow as when you go looking for your joy.More Yudora Welty quotes [07/18/2011 11:07:00]