Katherine Anne Porter Quotes

Katherine Anne Porter — American Journalist born on May 15, 1890, died on September 18, 1980

Katherine Anne Porter was 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 and career of Porter... (wikipedia)

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.

The real sin against life is to abuse and destroy beauty, even one's own even more, one's own, for that has been put in our care and we are responsible for its well-being.

Love must be learned, and learned again; there is no end to it.

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

Physical infidelity is the signal, the notice given, that all fidelities are undermined.