Quotes by Porter, Katherine Anne

There seems to be a kind of order in the universe, in the movement of >>

You can't write about people out of textbooks, and you can't use jargo >>

I have not much interest in anyone's personal history after the tenth >>

Quotations about Style

To give style to one's character -- a great and rare art! He exercises >>

I do not much dislike the matter, but the manner of his speech. >>

He has found his style, when he cannot do otherwise. >>

A cultivated style would be like a mask. Everybody knows it's a mask, and sooner or later you must show yourself -- or at least, you show yourself as someone who could not afford to show himself, and so created something to hide behind. You do not create a style. You work, and develop yourself; your style is an emanation from your own being.

Porter, Katherine Anne