Katherine Anne Porter Quotes
Top 65 wise famous quotes and sayings by Katherine Anne Porter
Katherine Anne Porter Famous Quotes & Sayings
Discover top inspirational quotes from Katherine Anne Porter on Wise Famous Quotes.
I specialize in what the French call la petite histoire. I am interested in the individual thumbprint.
I think I've only spent about ten percent of my energies on writing. The other ninety percent went to keeping my head above water.
Could she fall so low? No, there were limits, and she believed she still knew where some of them were.
Trust your happiness and the richness of your life at this moment. It is as true and as much yours as anything else that ever happened to you.
I will never again attempt to tell any young person what to do - the really gifted don't need advice and the others can't take it.
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.
[From Old Mortality]
The woman in the picture ... was only a ghost in a frame, and a sad, pretty story from old times.
The woman in the picture ... was only a ghost in a frame, and a sad, pretty story from old times.
A novel is really like a symphony where instrument after instrument has to come in at its own time, and no other.
The boys ate warily, trying not to be seen or heard, the cornbread sticking, the buttermilk gurgling, as it went down their gullets.
All that she had had, and all that she had missed, were lost together, and were twice lost in this landslide of remembered losses.
The nose is surely one of the most impressionable, if not positively erotic, of all our unruly members.
Miracles are instantaneous, they cannot be summoned, but come of themselves, usually at unlikely moments and to those who least expect them.
Your mind outwears all sorts of things you may set your heart upon; you can enjoy it when all other things are taken away.
Mexican writer and diplomat, "Pasado en claro" ("A Draft of Shadows") You learn something the day you die. You learn how to die.
Most people won't realize that writing is a craft. You have to take your apprenticeship in it like anything else.
A story is like something you wind out of yourself. Like a spider, it is a web you weave, and you love your story like a child.
[Marriage] is the merciless revealer, the great white searchlight turned on the darkest places of human nature.
But the great leveler, Death: not even the gods can defend a man, not even one they love, that day when fate takes hold and lays him out at last.
Love is purely a creation of the human imagination ... the most important example of how the imagination continually outruns the creature it inhabits.
The greatest art comes out of warmth and conviction and deep feeling, but then, very few people, even geniuses, have all that.
Childhood is the fiery furnace in which we are melted down to essentials and that essential shaped for good.