Quotes by : Katherine Anne Porter

One of the marks of a gift is to have the courage of it.

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....

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

It is a simple truth that the human mind can face better the most oppressive government, the most rigid....

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

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....

Marriage is a public declaration of a man and a woman that they have formed a secret alliance, with theintention....