Quotes by : Katherine Anne Porter

Death always leaves one singer to mourn.

Yes, she had changed her mind after sixty years and she would like to see George. I want you to find....

The trial of Jesus of Nazareth, the trial and rehabilitation of Joan of Arc, any one of the witchcraft....

Human life itself may be almost pure chaos, but the work of the artist is to take these handfuls of confusion....

I practiced writing in every possible way that I could. I wrote a pastiche of other people. Just as a....

Our being is subject to all the chances of life. There are so many things we are capable of that we....

If I didn't know the ending of a story, I wouldn't begin. I always write my last lines, my last paragraph....

It is my conviction that when events are forgotten, buried in the cellar of the page, they are no longer....

The real sin against life is to abuse and destroy beauty, even one's own even more, one's own, for that....

The past is never where you think you left it.