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steviec's review
4.0
What a remarkable little book!
Eudora Welty packed so much into this little volume. Her observations on the relationship between place and the writer were especially profound to me. She draws from a wealth of classic lit, and really tries to get our heads around digging deep, both in our reading and writing. Should be on every writer's shelf, but serious readers would do well by this as well.
Eudora Welty packed so much into this little volume. Her observations on the relationship between place and the writer were especially profound to me. She draws from a wealth of classic lit, and really tries to get our heads around digging deep, both in our reading and writing. Should be on every writer's shelf, but serious readers would do well by this as well.
lichenbitten's review
4.0
Considered one of the greatest short story writers of the 20th century, Eudora Welty offers a magnificent guide that reveals just as much about the author as it does the craft of writing.
nswish's review
3.0
This small book is very rich and dense! Lovely, but more focused on writing novels than general writing.
jaymeeloo's review
4.0
"We can never stop trying to make feelings felt."
"For we have to remember what the novel is. Made by the imagination for the imagination, it is an illusion come full circle..."
"For we have to remember what the novel is. Made by the imagination for the imagination, it is an illusion come full circle..."
elinightingale's review
i feel like she's much better as a story teller than an informer. maybe i'm just not cut out for this style, but it was just prose, i don't feel like i learned anything.
gremily's review
4.0
Rambling, wordy, occasionally flawed, but also occasionally brilliant, warm, inspiring and human.
krknights's review
4.0
Money quotes:
"Each story, it seems to me, thrives in the course of being written only as long as it seems to have a life of its own."
"To write honestly and with all our powers is the least we can do, and the most."
"Each story, it seems to me, thrives in the course of being written only as long as it seems to have a life of its own."
"To write honestly and with all our powers is the least we can do, and the most."
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