A writer's Beginnings Eudora Welty

It is the writer’s mind that fascinates me. What is it she’s seen, and felt, and learned, to write something that keeps the reader, that stays and lives with them? What is this giving?
Eudora Welty led such a private life that I wonder about her thoughts and how she chooses to share them. A story is more than words, images, and ideas; it is a living vision. How does she go about capturing that vision? Why?
“All serious daring starts from within,” she writes at the end of One Writer’s Beginnings. It is true; we all learn this, but only after much inner struggle. To write well we must not fear our own thoughts and feelings, we must be willing and courageous enough to recognize and expose them. The human mind is the source of attraction because it is a mystery to even ourselves. The only way to get inside another is to understand, as much as one can, the nature of it. Welty is a keen observer, and I believe that she was an observer first, then a writer. It is evident in her w...