I was right not to be afraid of any thief but myself, who will end by leaving me nothing. Katherine Anne Porter Read Quote
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 Read Quote
The real sin against life is to abuse and destroy beauty, even one’s own even more, one’s own, for that has been put in our care and we are responsible for its well-being. Katherine Anne Porter Read Quote
Physical infidelity is the signal, the notice given, that all fidelities are undermined. Katherine Anne Porter Read Quote
Most people won’t realize that writing is a craft. You have to take your apprenticeship in it like anything else. Katherine Anne Porter Read Quote
They had both noticed that a life of dissipation sometimes gave to a face the look of gaunt suffering spirituality that a life of asceticism was supposed to give and quite often did not. Katherine Anne Porter Read Quote
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 Read Quote
