Katherine Anne Porter
Katherine Anne Porter
Katherine Anne Porterwas a Pulitzer Prize-winning American journalist, essayist, short story writer, novelist, and political activist. Her 1962 novel Ship of Fools was the best-selling novel in America that year, but her short stories received much more critical acclaim. She is known for her penetrating insight; her work deals with dark themes such as betrayal, death and the origin of human evil. In 1990, Recorded Texas Historic Landmark number 2905 was placed in Brown County, Texas, to honor the life...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionJournalist
Date of Birth15 May 1890
CountryUnited States of America
One of the marks of a gift is to have the courage of it.
Now and again thousands of memories converge, harmonize, arrange themselves around a central idea in a coherent form, and I write a story.
Love is purely a creation of the human imagination... the most important example of how the imagination continually outruns the creature it inhabits.
You do not create a style. You work, and develop yourself; your style is an emanation from your own being.
I have not much interest in anyone's personal history after the tenth year, not even my own. Whatever one was going to be was all prepared before that.
I shall try to tell the truth, but the result will be fiction.
...with the most infinite tenderness I have ever known in my life, he put his arms around me, gently, gently, and I embraced him around the neck, and we touched...
I get so tired of moral bookkeeping.
Trust your happiness and the richness of your life at this moment. It is as true and as much yours as anything else that ever happened to you.
Defeat in this world is no disgrace if you fought well and fought for the right thing.
They had both noticed that a life of dissipation sometimes gave to a face the look of gaunt suffering spirituality that a life of asceticism was supposed to give and quite often did not.
Don't sidestep suffering. You have to go through it to get where you're going.
I'm not afraid of life and I'm not afraid of death: Dying's the bore.
I have no patience with this dreadful idea that whatever you have in you has to come out, that you can't suppress true talent. People can be destroyed; they can be bent, distorted, and completely crippled . . . In spite of all the poetry, all the philosophy to the contrary, we are not really masters of our fate.