I think I've only spent about ten percent of my energies on writing. The other ninety percent went to keeping my head… — Katherine Anne Porter Copy Share Image
Now and again thousands of memories converge, harmonize, arrange themselves around a central idea in a coherent form, and I write a… — Katherine Anne Porter Copy Share Image
Mexican writer and diplomat, "Pasado en claro" ("A Draft of Shadows") You learn something the day you die. You learn how to… — Katherine Anne Porter Copy Share Image
Most people won't realise that writing is a craft. You have to take your apprenticeship in it like anything else. — Katherine Anne Porter Copy Share Image
You can't write about people out of textbooks, and you can't use jargon. You have to speak clearly and simply and purely… — Katherine Anne Porter Copy Share Image
It is as hard to find a neutral critic as it is a neutral country in time of war. I suppose if… — Katherine Anne Porter Copy Share Image
Writing, in any sense that matters, cannot be taught. It can only be learned by each separate one of us in his… — Katherine Anne Porter Copy Share Image
Be bold, and try not to fall in love with your faults. Don't be so afraid of giving yourself away, either, for… — Katherine Anne Porter Copy Share Image
I started out with nothing in the world but a kind of passion, a driving desire. I don't know where it came… — Katherine Anne Porter Copy Share Image
There seems to be a kind of order in the universe…in the movement of the stars and the turning of the Earth and the… — Katherine Anne Porter Copy Share
The human heart is not yet so corroded that it can read off the extinction of these two men without a shock to the… — Katherine Anne Porter Copy Share
Human life itself may be almost pure chaos, but the work of the artist is to take these handfuls of confusion and disparate things,… — Katherine Anne Porter Copy Share
But the great leveler, Death: not even the gods can defend a man, not even one they love, that day when fate takes hold… — Katherine Anne Porter Copy Share
I started out with nothing in the world but a kind of passion, a driving desire. I don't know where it came from, and… — Katherine Anne Porter Copy Share
I am in Paris. Yes ma'am , I made it back. I came up from Berlin, stopped here ten days, fought a losing battle… — Katherine Anne Porter Copy Share
Your mind outwears all sorts of things you may set your heart upon; you can enjoy it when all other things are taken away. — Katherine Anne Porter Copy Share
The arts do live continuously, and they live literally by faith; their names and their shapes and their uses and their basic meanings survive… — Katherine Anne Porter Copy Share
The very thing about people that makes the human race interesting is also the thing that makes it so hard to get anything done… — Katherine Anne Porter Copy Share
A cultivated style would be like a mask. Everybody knows it's a mask, and sooner or later you must show yourself -- or at… — Katherine Anne Porter Copy Share
In the arts, you simply cannot secure your bread and your freedom of action too. You cannot be a hostile critic of society and… — Katherine Anne Porter Copy Share
