{"id":54355,"date":"2016-05-13T16:00:18","date_gmt":"2016-05-13T16:00:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/paris_review_interviews_eudora_welty-wherever_you_go_you_meet_part_of_your\/"},"modified":"2016-05-13T16:00:18","modified_gmt":"2016-05-13T16:00:18","slug":"paris_review_interviews_eudora_welty-wherever_you_go_you_meet_part_of_your","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=54355","title":{"rendered":"Paris Review interviews Eudora Welty&#8211;\u201cWherever you go, you meet part of your story&#34;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>INTERVIEWER<\/p>\n<p>Where does the dialogue come from?<\/p>\n<p>WELTY<\/p>\n<p>Familiarity. Memory of the way things get said. Once you have heard certain expressions, sentences, you almost never forget them. It\u2019s like sending a bucket down the well and it always comes up full. You don\u2019t know you\u2019ve remembered, but you have. And you listen for the right word, in the present, and you hear it. Once you\u2019re into a story everything seems to apply\u201d\u201dwhat you overhear on a city bus is exactly what your character would say on the page you\u2019re writing. Wherever you go, you meet part of your story. I guess you\u2019re tuned in for it, and the right things are sort of magnetized\u201d\u201dif you can think of your ears as magnets.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/interviews\/4013\/the-art-of-fiction-no-47-eudora-welty\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>INTERVIEWER Where does the dialogue come from? WELTY Familiarity. Memory of the way things get said. Once you have heard certain expressions, sentences, you almost never forget them. It\u2019s like sending a bucket down the well and it always comes<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=54355\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,50,209,175,92,168,133,113,34,126],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-54355","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-watch","category-international-news-commentary","category-americau-s-a","category-anthropology","category-books","category-ethics-moral-theology","category-history","category-poetry-literature","category-theology","category-women"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54355","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=54355"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54355\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=54355"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=54355"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=54355"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}