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.
Good music is very close to primitive language.
All I care about these days is painting β photography has never been more than a way into painting, a sort of instant drawing.
Now I really make the little idea from clay, and I hold it in my hand. I can turn it, look at it from underneath, see it from one view, hold it against the sky, imagine it any size I like, and really be in control almost like God creating something.
Sometimes when I sit down to practice and there is no one else in the room, I have to stifle an impulse to ring for the elevator man and offer him money to come in and hear me.
I always thought that poetry is the verdict that others give to a certain kind of writing. So to call yourself a poet is a kind of dangerous description. It's for others; it's for others to use.
Way before we were scratching pictures on caves or beating rhythms on hollow trees we were perfecting the art of combining our breath and mind and muscles into fluid self-propulsion over wild terrain.
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