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We are the breakers of our own hearts

We are the breakers of our own hearts

Eudora Welty
Heart
Eudora Welty (1996). “One Time, One Place: Mississippi in the Depression : a Snapshot Album”, p.11, Univ. Press of Mississippi

What I do in the writing of any character is to try to enter into the mind, heart and skin of a human being who is not myself. It is the act of a writer's imagination that I set the most high.

Eudora Welty
Writing, Heart, Character

Characters take on life sometimes by luck, but I suspect it is when you can write more entirely out of yourself, inside the skin, heart, mind, and soul of a person who is not yourself, that a character becomes in his own right another human being on the page.

Eudora Welty
Writing, Heart, Character
Eudora Welty (1995). “One Writer's Beginnings”, p.100, Harvard University Press

Since we must and do write each our own way, we may during actual writing get more lasting instruction not from another's work, whatever its blessings, however better it is than ours, but from our own poor scratched-over pages. For these we can hold up to life. That is, we are born with a mind and heart to hold each page up to, and to ask: is it valid?

Eudora Welty
Writing, Heart, Blessing
Eudora Welty (2011). “On Writing”, p.61, Modern Library

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
Reading, Heart, Writing
Eudora Welty (1962). “Three papers on fiction”

I learned quickly enough when to click the shutter, but what I was becoming aware of more slowly was a story-writer's truth: The thing to wait on, to reach for, is the moment in which people reveal themselves... I learned from my own pictures, one by one, and had to; for I think we are the breakers of our own hearts.

Eudora Welty
Heart, Thinking, People

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