When a person knows and can’t make the others understand, what does he do?
CARSON MCCULLERSHow can the dead be truly dead when they still live in the souls of those who are left behind?
More Carson McCullers Quotes
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The beloved fears and hates the lover, and with the best of reasons. For the lover is forever trying to strip bare his beloved.
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Love is a joint experience between two persons — but the fact that it is a joint experience does not mean that it is a similar experience to the two people involved.
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This fear is one of the horrors of an author’s life. Where does work come from? What chance, what small episode will start the chain of creation?
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It is music that causes the heart to broaden and the listener to grow cold with ecstasy and fright.
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It was like they waited to tell each other things that had never been told before. What she had to say was terrible and afraid. But what he would tell her was so true that it would make everything all right.
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I live with the people I create and it has always made my essential loneliness less keen.
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There are corporations worth billions of dollars – and hundreds of thousands of people who don’t get to eat.
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Maybe when people longed for a thing that bad the longing made them trust in anything that might give it to them.
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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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She wished there was some place where she could go to hum it out loud. Some kind of music was too private to sing in a house cram fall of people. It was funny, too, how lonesome a person could be in a crowded house.
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It was better to be in a jail where you could bang the walls than in a jail you could not see.
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What are the sources of an illumination? To me, they come after hours of searching and keeping my soul ready. Yet they come in a flash, as a religious phenomenon.
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The 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.
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The Heart is a Lonely Hunter had such an illumination, beginning my long search for the truth of the story and flashing light into the long two years ahead.
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But the hearts of small children are delicate organs. A cruel beginning in this world can twist them into curious shapes.
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