Place

What is there, then, about place that is transferable to the pages of a novel? The best things - the explicit things: physical texture. [Stories]. need the warm hard earth underfoot, the light and lift of air, the stir and play of mood, the softening bath of atmosphere that give the likeness-to-life... (Eudora Welty)

from "Place in Fiction" in
On Writing
by Eudora Welty