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NOVELISTS > author > Eudora Welty
Long before I...
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Long before I wrote stories, I listened for stories. Listening for them is something more acute than listening to them. When their elders sit and begin, children are just waiting and hoping for one to come out, like a mouse from its hole.
Source: One Writer's Beginnings, ch. 1, 1984.
-- Eudora Welty, (Apr 13 1909-2001), US author; She is noted for her historical works about Southern families; won Pulitzer for The Optimist's Daughter, 1972.