A story is like something you wind out of yourself. Like a spider, it is a web you weave, and you love your story like a child.
Interpretation
This quote emphasizes the deeply personal and creative nature of storytelling.
Katherine Anne Porter's quote illustrates how storytelling is an intrinsic process, akin to a spider spinning its web. It reflects the passion and care an author invests in their narrative, treating it as a cherished creation, much like a parent loves their child. This suggests that stories are not just fabricated tales but extensions of the storyteller's own experiences and emotions.
In practice
This quote could be shared at a writing workshop to inspire aspiring authors.
Writing, in any sense that matters, cannot be taught. It can only be learned by each separate one of us in his own way, by the use of his own powers of imagination and perception, the ability to learn the lessons he has set for himself.
You do not create a style. You work, and develop yourself; your style is an emanation from your own being.
They had both noticed that a life of dissipation sometimes gave to a face the look of gaunt suffering spirituality that a life of asceticism was supposed to give and quite often did not.
Miracles are instantaneous, they cannot be summoned, but come of themselves, usually at unlikely moments and to those who least expect them.
Now and again thousands of memories _x000D_ converge, harmonize, _x000D_ arrange themselves around a central idea _x000D_ in a coherent form, _x000D_ and I write a story.
Childhood is the fiery furnace in which we are melted down to essentials and that essential shaped for good.
The art has to make it on its own, without explanations, and it’s the same for poetry. If the poem or the painting has to be explained, then it’s a failure in communication.
In a photograph a person’s eyes tell much, sometimes they tell all.
I would love to see more women directors because they represent half of the population and gave birth to the whole world. Without them the rest [of the world] are not getting to know the whole story.
There is a kind of classlessness in the theater. The rehearsal pianist, the head carpenter, the stage manager, the star of the show-all are family.
I happen to go for the simplest, most ordinary things. The extraordinary doesn't interest me. I'm not interested in psychotics. I'm interested in the person you don't expect to have a story. I like Everyman.
There is in writing the constant joy of sudden discovery, of happy accident.
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