Frases de Eudora Welty

Eudora Alice Welty fue una escritora estadounidense que escribió novelas y cuentos sobre el Sur de Estados Unidos. Welty ganó el Premio Pulitzer en 1973 por su novela The Optimist's Daughter. Asimismo, fue galardonada con la Medalla Presidencial de la Libertad en 1980. Su hogar en Jackson fue designado como un Hito Histórico Nacional y está abierto al público como un museo. Wikipedia  

✵ 13. abril 1909 – 23. julio 2001   •   Otros nombres یودورا ولتی, ეუდორა უელტი, יודורה ולטי
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Eudora Welty: Frases en inglés

“All serious daring starts from within.”

Fuente: On Writing (2002)

“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 libro 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.

“She read Dickens in the same spirit she would have eloped with him.”

Eudora Welty libro One Writer's Beginnings

Fuente: One Writer's Beginnings

“If you're so smart, why ain't you rich?”

"Petrified Man", 1941