I define fear as standing across the ring from Joe Louis and knowing he wants to go home early. Max Baer
To imagine yourself inside another person... is what a storywriter does in every piece of work; it is his first step, and his last too, I suppose. Eudora Welty
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 writer's own life. Eudora Welty
I am a writer who came of a sheltered life. A sheltered life can be a daring life as well. For all serious daring starts from within. Eudora Welty
Everything was black in the harbor, but there were still some fires burning on the ships. Barney Ross
I'd get a shell, they weighed about 80 pounds I think, but when I was 19 or 20 that was nothing. I'd take a shell and a bag of powder, I'd put it in the hoist and then I would send it up to the gun. Barney Ross
