176 Quotes by Katherine Anne Porter

I was right not to be afraid of any thief but myself, who will end by leaving me nothing.

Marriage is a public declaration of a man and a woman that they have formed a secret alliance, with the intention to belong to, and share with each other, a mystical estate; mystical exactly in the sense that the real experience cannot be communicated to others, nor explained even to oneself on rational grounds.

I shall try to tell the truth, but the result will be fiction.

Be respectful of words. They mean something.

It is such a relief to be told the truth.

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

Experience is what really happens to you in the long run; the truth that finally overtakes you.

A novel is really like a symphony where instrument after instrument has to come in at its own time, and no other.

It's a man's world, and you men can have it.