Quote

Be bold, and try not to fall in love with your faults. Don't be so afraid of giving yourself away, either, for if yo write, you must. And if you can't face that, better not write.

Katherine Anne Porter

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Katherine Anne Porter
Age: 90 †
Born: 1890
Born: May 15
Died: 1980
Died: September 18
Essayist
Journalist
Novelist
Screenwriter
Writer
Indian Creek
Texas
Love
Fall
Write
Away
Bold
Better
Faults
Must
Afraid
Giving
Either
Writing
Face
Trying
Faces

More quotes by Katherine Anne Porter

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 changing of the seasons. But human life is almost pure chaos. Everyone takes his stance, asserts his own right and feelings, mistaking the motives of others, and his own.
Katherine Anne Porter
Image
Evil is dull, that is the worst of it.
Katherine Anne Porter
Image
There has been a marvelous joyous carnival of mourning for Edith Piaf and Jean Coctaeau, and it was real! They died as they had lived, with style and grace and their proper eccentricity and Paris loves anybody who can live anarchically and be delightful entertainment at the same time. So do I.
Katherine Anne Porter
Image
There is no such thing as an exact synonym and no such thing as an unmixed motive.
Katherine Anne Porter
Image
I want to live in a world capital or the howling wilderness.
Katherine Anne Porter
Image
I look upon literature as an art, and I believe that if you misuse it or abuse it, it will leave you. It is not a thing that you can nail down and use as you want. You have to let it use you, too.
Katherine Anne Porter
Image
I've been called a stylist until I really could tear my hair out. And I simply don't believe in style. The style is you.
Katherine Anne Porter
Image
Mexican writer and diplomat, Pasado en claro (A Draft of Shadows) You learn something the day you die. You learn how to die.
Katherine Anne Porter
Image
Death cancels our engagements, but it does not affect the consequences of our acts in life.
Katherine Anne Porter
Image
We are born knowing death.
Katherine Anne Porter
Image
Lovemaking surely must be, for human beings at our present state of development, one of the more private enterprises. Who would want a witness to that entire self-abandonment and helplessness?
Katherine Anne Porter
Image
Life is a game of piquet played in a bramble bush in very bad weather.
Katherine Anne Porter
Image
You are right, none of us live enough, and sometimes I think it is because we mistake hurrah and hullabaloo for experience, we get a sock in the eye and think it is a broken heart.
Katherine Anne Porter
Image
Death is loneliness in its purest form.
Katherine Anne Porter
Image
I do not understand the world, but I watch it's progress.
Katherine Anne Porter
Image
Untrained minds have always been a nuisance to the military police of orthodoxy. God-intoxicated mystics and untidy saints with only a white blaze of divine love where their minds should have been, are perpetually creating almost as much disorder within the law as outside it.
Katherine Anne Porter
Image
we know that the Furies do not come uninvited.
Katherine Anne Porter
Image
Marriage is a public declaration of a man and a woman that they have formed a secret alliance, with the intention to belong to, and share with each other, a mystical estate mystical exactly in the sense that the real experience cannot be communicated to others, nor explained even to oneself on rational grounds.
Katherine Anne Porter
Image
I shall try to tell the truth, but the result will be fiction.
Katherine Anne Porter
Image
Freedom, remember, is not the same as liberty.
Katherine Anne Porter