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“The first act of insight is throw away the labels.
In fiction, while we do not necessarily write about ourselves,
we write out of ourselves,
using ourselves;
what we learn from, what we are sensitive to,
what we feel strongly about —
these become our characters
and go to make our plots.” —
Eudora Welty
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Wow, Eudora Welty explains it so simply with one clear distinction.
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We don’t write about ourselves . . .
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we write out of ourselves.–
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Exactly!
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So well expressed that it clangs like a bell in the skull.
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