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.
Katherine Anne PorterRead
You do not create a style. You work, and develop yourself; your style is an emanation from your own being.
Interpretation
What this quote means
Style is a natural reflection of one's personal development and hard work.
Katherine Anne Porter emphasizes that style is not a conscious creation but rather a result of one's efforts and personal growth. It suggests that as individuals work on themselves and their craft, a unique style emerges that is authentically representative of who they are.
Themes
StyleSelf-DevelopmentArtCreativityPersonal Growth
In practice
Example use cases
In a speech about creativity, one might say, 'As Katherine Anne Porter once said, style is an emanation from your own being.'
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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.
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Miracles are instantaneous, they cannot be summoned, but come of themselves, usually at unlikely moments and to those who least expect them.
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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.
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Childhood is the fiery furnace in which we are melted down to essentials and that essential shaped for good.
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