EUDORA WELTY ~ ON WRITING A NOVEL

This intense novel is about a young mother and wife called Zoe Kruller, who is brutally murdered. It uses mixed storylines
“You can’t buy happiness, but you can buy books and that’s kind of the same thing.” Anonymous Girl Reading
“I am a writer and I want to write.” ― Jane Bowles Fear and Hope “Like most people, you
“A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies. The man who never reads lives only one.”
Eudora Welty
Photo above Eudora Welty in the garden, weeding, in the 1940s. Photograph via Eudora Welty Foundation.
Eudora Alice Welty (1909 – 2001) was an American author of short stories and novels about the American South. Her novel The Optimist’s Daughter won the Pulitzer Prize in 1973.
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Writing a story or a novel is one way of discovering sequence in experience, of stumbling upon cause and effect