Katherine Anne Porter Quotes

Truth is not a matter of personal viewpoint.

Every time you write anything, at least half your readers are going to disagree with you. A big part of sports writing is how you respond to that tension.

IT is difficult to speak or write with becoming moderation or propriety, on topics to which we are biased by prejudice, interest, or even principle.

No one is a good judge in his own cause.

It helps to have “has beens” on commissions because they have no political ax to grind.

People are so conditioned to take sides that a balanced analysis looks to them like hatred.

Objectivity means trying to give all sides a hearing. It does not, in my view, mean treating all sides as equal.

Woe to the man who tries to remain objective and to maintain a wide perspective: every one will label him as an enemy.

Neither side is guiltless if its adversary is appointed judge.

I have tried to be impartial, though I know that a man's past always colors his views, and that nothing else is so irritating as impartiality.

I try and sit on the fence because as soon as you voice any kind of opinion, people begin to think you're an idiot.

I'm a little concerned about this notion everybody wants us to be objective.

I don't take much notice of reviews now - obviously you'd like to have straight worship but you're never going to get that.

When you talk to family and friends, they can't tell you anything from an impartial point of view because they have a vested interest in you.

I don't know if there's such a thing as objectivity.

Dispassionate objectivity is itself a passion, for the real and for the truth.

What people call impartiality may simply mean indifference, and what people call partiality may simply mean mental activity.

The first essential in writing about anything is that the writer should have no experience of the matter.

I don't view myself as a political leftie. I view myself as a storyteller who is fair to both sides.

It is difficult to discriminate the voice of truth from amid the clamor raised by heated partisans.

I write with as much objectivity as I can.

It is not the task of a reader to please her subjects.

I'm very partisan, but I'm also very fair.

I think objectivity is like this strange myth that people think you're supposed to achieve, but actually, the dirty little secret is that it's not attainable any more than pure justice is attainable by the courts.

You cannot watch yourself dispassionately.