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Eudora Welty quotes about reading

American Author April 13, 1909 – July 23, 2001

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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... Eudora Welty
Writing is an expression of the writer's own peculiar personality, could not help being so. Yet in reading great works one feels that the finished piece transcends the personal. All writers great and small must sometimes have felt that they have become part of what they wrote even more than it still remains a part of them. Eudora Welty
I read library books as fast as I could go, rushing them home in the basket of my bicycle. From the minute I reached our house, I started to read. Every book I seized on, from “Bunny Brown and His Sister Sue at Camp Rest-a-While” to “Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea,” stood for the devouring wish to read being instantly granted. I knew this was bliss, knew it at the time. Taste isn’t nearly so important; it comes in its own time. Eudora Welty
I learned from the age of two or three that any room in our house, at any time of day, was there to read in, or to be read to Eudora Welty
Both reading and writing are experiences--lifelong-- in the course of which we who encounter words used in certain ways are persuaded by them to be brought mind and heart within the presence, the power, of the imagination. Eudora Welty
Eudora Welty quote: "Any room in our house at any time in the day was there to read..."
Any room in our house at any time in the day was there to read in or to be read to. Eudora Welty
Eudora Welty quote: "I wanted to read immediately. The only fear was that of books..."
I wanted to read immediately. The only fear was that of books coming to an end. 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
Eudora Welty quote: "She read Dickens in the same spirit she would have eloped with..."
She read Dickens in the same spirit she would have eloped with him. Eudora Welty

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