Katherine Anne Porter

Human life itself may be almost pure chaos, but the work of the artist is to take these handfuls of confusion and disparate things, things that seem to be irreconcilable, and put them together in a frame to give them some kind of shape and meaning.
-Katherine Anne Porter

I shall try to tell the truth, but the result will be fiction.
-Katherine Anne Porter

Love must be learned, and learned again; there is no end to it.
-Katherine Anne Porter

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

It is such a relief to be told the truth.
-Katherine Anne Porter