Katherine Anne Porter Quotes

My novels come from within me; they are things I feel I want to do.

The truth is that every writer, whether it's fiction or nonfiction, is trying to write something truly original and that's what I think I'm doing.

I love being able to create something from the page and bring it to life.

Writing isn't about the process. It is about creating. The joy comes not from the process but from the creation.

Actors may not realize the extent of their own power. Acting is creation. It's them bringing their own stuff, letting it marinate in their soul, in their creative engine.

I didn't have a lot of friends. I just walked around a lot and made up stories in my head. Then I'd go home and write them down. That's how I got started.

There is a certain joy in telling a story, and it gives me great pleasure to be a part of the process from scratch and say it the way I want to.

All of my puppets have their own personalities, their own background, and they enjoy what they do. How they say things, sing things, how they talk. I kind of created them out of my own personality. They are all me.

As artists, our job is to communicate thoughts and tell stories.

I just follow what inspires me as an artist and a storyteller, and stay true to myself in my work.

I do not believe that with a fictional character you can force yourself too far away from yourself. There has to be some of you in it.

It might be more difficult because you haven't got a book or a prop, but for the most part I like to write unpaid... initially and my own stories.

On the whole, stories don't write themselves.

Narrative is radical, creating us at the very moment it is being created.

I don't think you can teach someone how to come up with good characters or a story.

Take a step, breathe in the world, give it out again in story, poem, song, art.

In art, something comes of nothing. Out of the thin air and the ether, you create a story. And that is intensely satisfying.

The writing itself is the thing that generates stories for me.

Everything in the world was about creativity: belief and creation. Storytelling was the essence of both.

In movies, storytelling and every single art form, we're creating wonder. You're starting with a blank page and creating something that doesn't exist.

Writing fiction is an act of imagination and fantasizing, and it's not relating in prose what you've been doing for the last two or three years.

For me, the pleasure of writing comes with inventing stories.

I prefer things that are private, so I love recording and I love making films, as a filmmaker, because it uses every bit of what you have experienced or know, whether it's graphics composition, decorating, psychology, storytelling, or whatever it is. It's a wonderful thing.

You may be surprised to know that growing up, I wanted to be a writer of children's books.

You're writing it is how you feel. And when you're finished you put your signature on it and you mail it off and that's it. And that's how "Stand By Me" was really.