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Eudora Welty: What I do...

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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.

Source: The Collected Stories of Eudora Welty, Preface, 1980.
-- 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.


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