Eudora Welty

All serious daring starts from within.

A good snapshot keeps a moment from running away.

Indeed, learning to write may be part of learning to read. For all I know, writing comes out of a superior devotion to reading.

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 come 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. Still illiterate, I was ready for them, committed to all the reading I could give them ...

Write about what you don't know about what you know.

We are the breakers of our own hearts.

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.