Eudora Welty Quotes
I'm a great reader that never has time to read.
Welty, Eudora. Conversations with Eudora Welty. Edited by Peggy Whitman Prenshaw, University Press of Mississippi, 1984, p. 19.
Asked by reporters if the 10-year mark might prove to be a fatal politcal threshold, as in the case of former British prime minister Margaret Thatcher:
Eudora Alice Welty was an American short story writer, novelist and photographer, who wrote about the American South. Her novel The Optimist's Daughter won the Pulitzer Prize in 1973. Welty received numerous awards, including the Presidential Medal of Freedom and the Order of the South. She was the first living author to have her works published by the Library of America. Her house in Jackson, Mississippi, has been designated as a National Historic Landmark and is open to the public as a house museum.
