Eudora Welty

Eudora Welty was born in Jackson, Mississippi, United States.During the 1930s, Welty worked as a photographer for the Works Progress Administration.

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• A good snapshot stops a moment from running away.

• Life is lived in a private place; Where it means anything is inside the mind and heart.

On Writing

• The story and its analyses are not mirror-opposites of each other. They are not reflections, either one. Criticism indeed is an art, as a story is, but only the story is to some degree a vision; there is no explanation outside fiction for what the writer is learning to do.