Katherine Anne Porter Quotes About Writing

Quotes about: Writing

• 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 then I go back and work towards it. I know where I'm going. I know what my goal is. And how I get there is God's grace.

  Katherine Anne Porter

  Writing, Goal, Grace

  Katherine Anne Porter, Joan Givner (1987). “Katherine Anne Porter: Conversations”, p.88, Univ. Press of Mississippi

• You can't write about people out of textbooks, and you can't use jargon. You have to speak clearly and simply and purely in a language that a six-year-old child can understand; and yet have the meanings and the overtones of language, and the implications, that appeal to the highest intelligence.

  Katherine Anne Porter

  Children, Writing, Years

  Katherine Anne Porter, Joan Givner (1987). “Katherine Anne Porter: Conversations”, p.94, Univ. Press of Mississippi

• I think I've only spent about ten percent of my energies on writing. The other ninety percent went to keeping my head above water.

  Katherine Anne Porter

  Writing, Thinking, Water

• 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

  Falling In Love, Love You, Writing

• Writing, in any sense that matters, cannot be taught. It can only be learned by each separate one of us in his own way, by the use of his own powers of imagination and perception, the ability to learn the lessons he has set for himself.

  Katherine Anne Porter

  Writing, Imagination, Perception

  Katherine Anne Porter (2008). “Katherine Anne Porter: Collected Stories & Other Writings”, p.833, Library of America

• Most people won't realise that writing is a craft. You have to take your apprenticeship in it like anything else.

  Katherine Anne Porter

  Writing, People, Crafts

• Now and again thousands of memories
  converge, harmonize,
  arrange themselves around a central idea
  in a coherent form,
  and I write a story.

  Katherine Anne Porter

  Memories, Writing, Ideas

  Katherine Anne Porter (2008). “Katherine Anne Porter: Collected Stories & Other Writings”, p.827, Library of America

• It is as hard to find a neutral critic as it is a neutral country in time of war. I suppose if a critic were neutral, he wouldn't trouble to write anything.

  Katherine Anne Porter

  Country, War, Writing

• I started out with nothing in the world but a kind of passion, a driving desire. I don't know where it came from, and I don't know why - or why I have been so stubborn about it that nothing could deflect me. But this thing between me and my writing is the strongest bond I have ever had - stronger than any bond or any engagement with any human being or with any other work I've ever done.

  Katherine Anne Porter

  Passion, Writing, Desire

  Katherine Anne Porter, Joan Givner (1987). “Katherine Anne Porter: Conversations”, p.79, Univ. Press of Mississippi

• Writing does not exclude the full life; it demands it.

  Katherine Anne Porter

  Writing, Doe, Demand

• I always write a story in one sitting.

  Katherine Anne Porter

  Writing, Sitting, Stories

  Katherine Anne Porter, Joan Givner (1987). “Katherine Anne Porter: Conversations”, p.95, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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