The nose is surely one of the most impressionable, if not positively erotic, of all our unruly members.
Katherine Anne PorterMost people won't realise that writing is a craft. You have to take your apprenticeship in it like anything else.
Katherine Anne PorterI 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.
Katherine Anne PorterIn this moment she felt that she had been robbed of an enormous number of valuable things, whether material or intangible: things lost or broken by her own fault, things she had forgotten and left in houses when she moved: books borrowed from her and not returned, journeys she had planned and had not made, words she had waited to hear spoken to her and had not heard, and the words she meant to answer with. . . .
Katherine Anne Porter