Katherine Anne Porter Quotes

I practiced writing in every possible way that I could. I wrote a pastiche of other people. Just as ...

It is my conviction that when events are forgotten, buried in the cellar of the page, they are no lo...

The past is never where you think you left it.

Yes, she had changed her mind after sixty years and she would like to see George. I want you to find...

It is a simple truth that the human mind can face better the most oppressive government, the most ri...

The trial of Jesus of Nazareth, the trial and rehabilitation of Joan of Arc, any one of the witchcra...

Death always leaves one singer to mourn.

If I didn't know the ending of a story, I wouldn't begin. I always write my last lines, my last para...

Human life itself may be almost pure chaos, but the work of the artist is to take these handfuls of ...

Experience is what really happens to you in the long run the truth that finally overtakes you.

Marriage is a public declaration of a man and a woman that they have formed a secret alliance, with ...

The real sin against life is to abuse and destroy beauty, even one's own even more, one's own, for t...

Our being is subject to all the chances of life. There are so many things we are capable of that we...

One of the marks of a gift is to have the courage of it.