Quotes By Katherine Anne Porter
Experience is what really happens to you in the long run; the truth that finally overtakes you.
Katherine Anne Porter
I have not much interest in anyone's personal history after the tenth year, not even my own. Whatever one was going to be was all prepared before that.
Katherine Anne Porter
Physical infidelity is the signal, the notice given, that all fidelities are undermined.
Katherine Anne Porter
I was right not to be afraid of any thief but myself, who will end by leaving me nothing.
Katherine Anne Porter
Most people won't realize that writing is a craft. You have to take your apprenticeship in it like anything else.
Katherine Anne Porter
Our being is subject to all the chances of life. There are so many things we are capable of, that we could be or do. The potentialities are so great that we never, any of us, are more than one-fourth fulfilled.
Katherine Anne Porter
Human life itself may be almost pure chaos, but the work of the artist is to take these handfuls of confusion and disparate things, things that seem to be irreconcilable, and put them together in a frame to give them some kind of shape and meaning.
Katherine Anne Porter