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 writers own life. – Eudora Welty
The excursion is the same when you go looking for your sorrow as when you go looking for your joy. – Eudora Welty
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. – Eudora Welty
I find increasingly that the more extreme are the things going on in your life, the more cultural reference points fail you. More mythical reference points actually help, and you realise thats what myths are for. Its for human beings to process their experience in extremis. – Michael Sheen