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Eudora Welty

Geburtstag: 13. April 1909
Todesdatum: 23. Juli 2001
Andere Namen:יודורה ולטי, ეუდორა უელტი, یودورا ولتی

Eudora Alice Welty war eine US-amerikanische Schriftstellerin und Fotografin. 1973 wurde sie für den Roman The Optimist’s Daughter mit dem Pulitzer-Preis ausgezeichnet.

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„Hallo, Fremder", sagte er zu dem zweiten Reisenden. "Die Welt ist klein! Lange her, seit unsere Köpfe Seite an Seite auf dem Kissen lagen."
"Eine Ewigkeit!", rief der andere.
Da wusste Clement, dass sie alle einander fremd waren und dass die stürmische Nacht vor ihnen lag.“

— Eudora Welty
The Robber Bridegroom

Über die Welt

„All serious daring starts from within.“

— Eudora Welty, On Writing

„A good snapshot keeps a moment from running away.“

— Eudora Welty

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

— Eudora Welty, On Writing

„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
Context: 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.