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Katherine Anne Porter Quotes
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Words can never get at the truth (Katherine Anne Porter Quotes)
Freedom, remember, is not the same as liberty (Katherine Anne Porter Quotes)
I’ve been called a stylist until I really could tear my hair out. And I simply don’t believe in style. The style is you. (Katherine Anne Porter Quotes)
Death is loneliness in its purest form (Katherine Anne Porter Quotes)
We are born knowing death (Katherine Anne Porter Quotes)
Evil is dull, that is the worst of it (Katherine Anne Porter Quotes)
We pity people too often for the wrong reasons (Katherine Anne Porter Quotes)
We know that the Furies do not come uninvited (Katherine Anne Porter Quotes)
Be respectful of words. They mean something (Katherine Anne Porter Quotes)
Writing does not exclude the full life; it demands it (Katherine Anne Porter Quotes)
I work whenever I’m let (Katherine Anne Porter Quotes)
No man can be explained by his personal history, least of all a poet (Katherine Anne Porter Quotes)
Love must be learned, and learned again; there is no end to it (Katherine Anne Porter Quotes)
I finished the thing; but I think I sprained my soul (Katherine Anne Porter Quotes)
The real sin against life is to abuse and destroy beauty, even one’s own even more, one’s own, for that has been put in our care and we are responsible for its well-being (Katherine Anne Porter Quotes)
If I didn’t know the ending of a story, I wouldn’t begin. I always write my last lines, my last paragraph first, and then I go back and work towards it. I know where I’m going. I know what my goal is. And how I get there is God’s grace (Katherine Anne Porter Quotes)
It is my firm belief that all our lives we are preparing to be somebody or something, even if we don’t do it consciously. And the time comes one morning when you wake up and find that you have become irrevocably what you were preparing all this time to be (Katherine Anne Porter Quotes)
Art is a vocation, as much as anything in this world. For the real artist, it is the most natural thing in the world, not as necessary as air and water, perhaps, but as food and water. But we really do lead almost a monastic life, you know; to follow it you very often have to give up something (Katherine Anne Porter Quotes)
Untrained minds have always been a nuisance to the military police of orthodoxy. God-intoxicated mystics and untidy saints with only a white blaze of divine love where their minds should have been, are perpetually creating almost as much disorder within the law as outside it (Katherine Anne Porter Quotes)
. . . all that she had had, and all that she had missed, were lost together, and were twice lost in this landslide of remembered losses. (Katherine Anne Porter Quotes)
All working, practical political systems, even those professing to originate in moral grandeur, are based upon and operate by contempt of human life and the individual fate ... (Katherine Anne Porter Quotes)
The real sin against life is to abuse and destroy beauty, even one’s own even more, one’s own, for that has been put in our care and we are responsible for its well-being. (Katherine Anne Porter Quotes)
Most people won’t realize that writing is a craft. You have to take your apprenticeship in it like anything else. (Katherine Anne Porter Quotes)
Most people won’t realise that writing is a craft. You have to take your apprenticeship in it like anything else. (Katherine Anne Porter Quotes)
Be bold, and try not to fall in love with your faults. Don’t be so afraid of giving yourself away, either, for if yo write, you must. And if you can’t face that, better not write. (Katherine Anne Porter Quotes)
Don’t sidestep suffering. You have to go through it to get where you’re going. (Katherine Anne Porter Quotes)
Adventure is something you seek for pleasure, or even for profit, like a gold rush or invading a country;...but experience is what really happens to you in the long run; the truth that finally overtakes you. (Katherine Anne Porter Quotes)
Life is a game of piquet played in a bramble bush in very bad weather (Katherine Anne Porter Quotes)
One of the marks of a gift is to have the courage of it (Katherine Anne Porter Quotes)
Perhaps the habit which distinguishes civilized people from others is that of discussion, exchange of opinion and ideas, the ability to differ without quarrelling, to say what you have to say civilly and then to listen civilly to another speaker (Katherine Anne Porter Quotes)