No blur of inexactness, no cloud of vagueness, is allowable in good writing; from the first seeing to the last putting down, there must be steady lucidity and uncompromise of purpose.
Eudora WeltyTo open up the new, to look back on the old may bring forth like discoveries in the practice of art.
Eudora WeltyLong before I wrote stories, I listened for stories. Listening for them is something more acute than listening to them.
Eudora Welty