A writer soon discovers he has no single identity but lives the lives of all the people he creates and his weathers are independent of the actual day around him.
CARSON MCCULLERSThis was her, Mick Kelly, walking in the daytime and by herself at night. In the hot sun and in the dark with all the plans and feelings.
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I have more to say than Hemingway, and God knows, I say it better than Faulkner.
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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.
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I want – I want – I want – was all that she could think about – but just what this real want was she did not know.
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I got to wear blinders all the time so I won’t think sideways or in the past.
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Death is the great gamer with a sleeve of tricks.
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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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The memories of childhood have a strange shuttling quality, and areas of darkness ring the spaces of light.
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I must go home periodically to renew my sense of horror.
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Wherever you look there’s meanness and corruption. This room, this bottle of grape wine, these fruits in the basket, are all products of profit and loss.
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Love is affirmation; it motivates the yes responses and the sense of wider communication. Love casts out fear, and in the security of this togetherness we find contentment, courage.
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The lover craves any possible relation with the beloved, even if this experience can cause him only pain.
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Coming down was the hardest part of any climbing.
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The writer must hew the phantom rock.
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The trouble with me is that for a long time I have just been an I person.
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When a person knows and can’t make the others understand, what does he do?
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