Quotes by Katherine Anne Porter

Explore a curated collection of 10 quotes by Katherine Anne Porter. Discover timeless wisdom, insightful thoughts, and memorable words that have inspired readers around the world. Browse through the gallery below and click on any quote to read more.

If I didn't know the ending of a story, I wouldn't begin. I always write my last lines, my last paragraph first, and the — Katherine Anne Porter
It is my conviction that when events are forgotten, buried in the cellar of the page, they are no longer even history. — Katherine Anne Porter
Marriage is a public declaration of a man and a woman that they have formed a secret alliance, with theintention to belo — Katherine Anne Porter
The past is never where you think you left it. — Katherine Anne Porter
I practiced writing in every possible way that I could. I wrote a pastiche of other people. Just as a pianist runs his s — Katherine Anne Porter
One of the marks of a gift is to have the courage of it. — Katherine Anne Porter
Experience is what really happens to you in the long run the truth that finally overtakes you. — 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 — 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 dispar — Katherine Anne Porter
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 — Katherine Anne Porter