Eudora Welty

"Writing a story or a novel is one way of discovering sequence in experience, of stumbling upon cause and effect in the happenings of a writer's own life."

"Writing fiction has developed in me an abiding respect for the unknown in a human lifetime and a sense of where to look for the threads, how to follow, how to connect, find in the thick of the tangle what clear line persists."

"The excursion is the same when you go looking for your sorrow as when you go looking for your joy."

"Through travel I first became aware of the outside world it was through travel that I found my own introspective way into becoming a part of it."