"I shall try to tell the truth, but……" — Katherine Anne Porter
"I shall try to tell the truth, but the result will be fiction."
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51 Quotes by Katherine Anne Porter
Katherine Anne Porter has 51 quotes on this site.
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Adventure is something you seek for pleasure, or even for profit, like a gold rush or invading a country;...but experience…
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Defeat in this world is no disgrace if you fought well and fought for the right thing.
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I don't believe in intuition. When you get sudden flashes of perception, it is just the brain working faster than…
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Miracles are instantaneous, they cannot be summoned, but come of themselves, usually at unlikely moments and to those who least…
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I have not much interest in anyone's personal history after the tenth year, not even my own. Whatever one was…
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You do not create a style. You work, and develop yourself; your style is an emanation from your own being.
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And yet, we know how fatal the pursuit of liveliness may be: it may result in ... tiresome acrobatics. ...…
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Those who give the orders are not the ones to die The people who are doing the work and the…
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Writing, in any sense that matters, cannot be taught. It can only be learned by each separate one of us…
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Most people won't realise that writing is a craft. You have to take your apprenticeship in it like anything else.
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There are so many things that we are capable of, that we could be or do. The potentialities are so…
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I was right not to be afraid of any thief but myself, who will end by leaving me nothing.
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More Fiction Quotes
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one of 2,465 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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I'd love to do a movie where the monster is human, where the issue is not otherworldly, or horror or…
— J. J. Abrams
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The most deeply personal of my works are the non-fiction works, the autobiographical works, because there, I'm talking about myself…
— Paul Auster
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Individual science fiction stories may seem as trivial as ever to the blinder critics and philosophers of today - but…
— Isaac Asimov
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Science fiction writers foresee the inevitable, and although problems and catastrophes may be inevitable, solutions are not.
— Isaac Asimov
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Because I write fiction, I don't write autobiography, and to me they are very different things. The first-person narrative is…
— Kate Atkinson
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Science and fiction both begin with similar questions: What if? Why? How does it all work? But they focus on…
— Margaret Atwood
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Science fiction is filled with Martians and space travel to other planets, and things like that.
— Margaret Atwood
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Science fiction, to me, has not only things that wouldn't happen, but other planets.
— Margaret Atwood
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Speculative fiction encompasses that which we could actually do. Sci-fi is that which we're probably not going to see.
— Margaret Atwood
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All fiction is about people, unless it's about rabbits pretending to be people. It's all essentially characters in action, which…
— Margaret Atwood
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Fiction is not necessarily about what you know, it's about how you feel. That is the truth about fiction, and…
— Margaret Atwood
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I hate to tell you this, but you will never actually go to a galaxy far, far away and encounter…
— Margaret Atwood
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