I once wrote a story about a writer who could not write anymore, and my friend Tennessee Williams said, ‘How could you dare write that story, it’s the most frightening work I have ever read.’ I was pretty well sunk while I was writing it.
CARSON MCCULLERSThe dimensions of a work of art are seldom realized by the author until the work is accomplished. It is like a flowering dream. Ideas grow, budding silently, and there are a thousand illuminations coming day by day as the work progresses.
More Carson McCullers Quotes
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They are the we of me.
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The bewildered soul can answer only: “Since I do not understand ‘Who I am,’ I only know what I am not.” The corollary of this emotional incertitude is snobbism, intolerance and racial hate.
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Owing to the fact he was a mute they were able to give him all the qualities they wanted him to have.
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To know who you are, you have to have a place to come from.
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The seed of the idea is developed by both labor and the unconscious, and the struggle that goes on between them.
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Love is the main generator of all good writing… Love, passion, compassion, are all welded together.
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How can the dead be truly dead when they still live in the souls of those who are left behind?
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The memories of childhood have a strange shuttling quality, and areas of darkness ring the spaces of light.
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I have never gone to a doctor in my adult life, feeling instinctively that doctors meant either cutting or, just as bad, diet.
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Jesus would be framed and in jail if he was living today.
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You don’t know what it is to store up a lot of details and then come upon something real.
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I’m not explaining this right. What happened was this. There were these beautiful feelings and loose little pleasures inside me. And this woman was something like an assembly line for my soul.
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I am not meant to be alone and without you who understands.
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The human heart is a lonely hunter-but the search for us southerners is more anguished.
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And in addition to this our country was founded on what should have been a great, true principle – the freedom, equality, and rights of each individual. Huh! And what has come of that start?
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