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I was given the ability to create stories and characters. That's my part of the long chain of wr... KARL MARLANTES When I was twelve, I started reading Eudora Welty, Thomas Wolfe, Flannery O'Connor, James Agee, ...
FRANCES MAYES It wasn't until I started to read short stories - by people like Alice Munro, Mavis Gallant, Joh...
CAROL WINDLEY Our most famous writers are Faulkner and Eudora Welty and Flannery O'Connor. It would make sense...
ROBERT MORGAN
Classical music has become rarefied, like a maiden aunt that nobody wants to talk to. CHARLES HAZLEWOOD Eudora Welty's 'A Curtain of Green' had an enormous effect on me. But my early attempts ...
BARRY UNSWORTH Eudora Welty singles out for praise Austen's "habit of seeing both sides of her own subject - of see...
EMILY AUERBACH
My favorite game was one I invented with my cousins called Mean Aunt Rosie, where I was a deranged m... GILLIAN FLYNN
To succeed with the opposite sex, tell her you're impotent. She can't wait to disprove it. CARY GRANT Laws of Sex; Those not used to being naked among their friends or those not used to being in the pre...
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN)
[Likewise, she is closely observed in her new film,] Happy Endings, ... The Opposite of Sex. TOM ARNOLD
A really plain woman is one who, however beautiful, neglects to charm EDGAR SALTUS
To succeed with the opposite sex, tell her you're impotent. She can't wait to disprove it. CARY GRANT This amendment would bar the legal recognition for civil unions, domestic partnerships or life partn...
LARRY FRANKEL 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 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'm a great reader that never has time to read.
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 My character, she's kind of gotten away with her looks, gotten away with her ability to charm people...
SEX AND THE CITY FRIEND: A member of the opposite sex in your acquaintance who has some flaw which makes sleeping wi...
THE DICTIONARY OF DATING I pity the people who hated the opposite sex, I've no idea what they done to them but I still won't ...
J C A ROWE
Even when apologising, this guy turns on the charm. And the worst thing is that it works.She h...
GUILLAUME MUSSO
From every ancient source, we have testimony to Cleopatra's irresistible charm, as Plutarch has ... STACY SCHIFF
Of the opposite sex, I have the moustache and, in general, the face. FRIDA KAHLO
Charm is the ability to insult people without offending them; nerdiness the reverse NASSIM NICHOLAS TALEB
Always wise aunts come in many guises. There are maiden aunts, dowager aunts, and that delightful cr... SARA SHERIDAN
My character, she’s kind of gotten away with her looks, gotten away with her ability to charm... CAMERON DIAZ
I feel sexy when I get out of the tub - your skin is fresh and you've put up your hair without looki... SHANIA TWAIN
As for being a little bunny that never says a word, that is truly the opposite of me. BRIGITTE BARDOT Some people think luxury is the opposite of poverty. It is not. It is the opposite of vulgarity. Lux...
KAREN KARBO The maiden with her wheel of old
Sat by the fire to spin,
While lightly through her carefu...
MADELINE S. BRIDGES
The media tends to portray the teenage world as one where drinking and sex is taken for granted. In ... LOUIS SACHAR
I've enjoyed the opposite sex a lot. Always have. Always will. BETTY WHITE I miss her. I think of my kids and what they're missing not having her as an aunt. It's hard.
HEATHER TALLET A simple maiden in her flower Is worth a hundred coats of arms.
JOHN TAYLOR "THE WATER POET"
Technically, even on inspection, it was against camp rules for two campers of the opposite sex to be... RICK RIORDAN
Charm is the ability to make someone think that both of you are quite wonderful. SOURCE UNKNOWN
