“All this time I was writing, writing no matter what else I was doing, no matter what I thought I was doing, in fact … I realize now that all that time a part of me was getting ready to be an artist. That my mind was working even when I didn’t know it, and didn’t care if it was working or not. It is my firm belief that all our lives we are preparing to be somebody or something, even if we don’t do it consciously. And the time comes one morning when you wake up and find that you have become irrevocably what you were preparing all this time to be. Lord, that could be a sticky moment, if you had been doing the wrong things, something against your grain.”
— Katherine Anne Porter
(from Porter’s interview with The Paris Review, found in Women Writers at Work.)
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