(1908–2000)
U.S. novelist and editor“Who knows what the day after tomorrow will bring—the very thing we most wanted and haven’t allowed our hearts to hope.”
more infosource: letter to Eudora Welty, January 24, 1967, in What There Is to Say We Have Said, ed. by Suzanne Marrs (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 2011), 213.
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category: faith, future, heart, hope, optimism
medium: Letter
“New York City is a place where one can weep on the sidewalk in perfect privacy.”
more infosource: So Long, See You Tomorrow (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1980), 131.
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category: emotion, New York City, tears
medium: Fiction
“Dearest Eudora, what there is to say we have said, in one way or another.”
more infosource: letter to Eudora Welty, January 15, 1996, in What There Is to Say We Have Said, ed. by Suzanne Marrs (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 2011), 440.
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category: friendship, love
medium: Letter
“My father used to say, of car after car, this is my last LaSalle, or Cadillac, or whatever, but it never was, at least not for longer than he expected. I feel quite sure this is my last book. Unless I am hit on the head with a falling rock and vast reservoirs of hitherto unperceived material are revealed to me. As it stands I feel pretty much that I have left no stone unturned.”
more infosource: letter to Eudora Welty, December 17, 1990, in What There Is to Say We Have Said, ed. by Suzanne Marrs (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 2011), 433.
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category: aging, book, creative process, writing
medium: Letter
William Maxwell