Tag: One Writer’s Beginnings

“It seemed to me that if I could stir, if I could move to take the next step, I could go out into the poem the way I could go out into that snow.”

Were my reading assignments interesting?  Moving?  Inspiring?  These are the questions I ask myself after teaching literature classes.  I hope my students will experience the sort of engagement that Eudora Welty describes here.  She writes about spending an afternoon in the library reading Yeats and feeling so absorbed by the … Read More

“As we discover, we remember; remembering, we discover.”

How can a writer who spent all but six years of her life in the same house, living what she herself describes as a “sheltered life,” create such astonishing fiction?  In her memoir, One Writer’s Beginnings, Eudora Welty answers this question by arguing that a quiet life “can be … Read More