Love is the main generator of all good writing… Love, passion, compassion, are all welded together.
CARSON MCCULLERSThey are the we of me.
More Carson McCullers Quotes
-
-
The writer by nature of his profession is a dreamer and a conscious dreamer. He must imagine, and imagination takes humility, love and great courage. How can you create a character without live and the struggle that goes with love?
CARSON MCCULLERS -
But you haven’t never loved God nor even nair person. You hard and tough as cowhide. But just the same I knows you. This afternoon you going to roam all over the place without never being satisfied.
CARSON MCCULLERS -
But no value has been put on human life; it is given to us free and taken without being paid for. What is it worth?
CARSON MCCULLERS -
justice itself is a chimera, a delusion. Justice is not a flat yardstick, applied in equal measure to an equal situation.
CARSON MCCULLERS -
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.
CARSON MCCULLERS -
Nothing is so musical as the sound of pouring bourbon for the first drink on a Sunday morning. Not Bach or Schubert or any of those masters.
CARSON MCCULLERS -
We are homesick most for the places we have never known.
CARSON MCCULLERS -
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.
CARSON MCCULLERS -
There is no stillness like the quiet of the first cold nights in the fall.
CARSON MCCULLERS -
The writer must hew the phantom rock.
CARSON MCCULLERS -
I run these little pieces of myself through her and I come out complete. Now do you follow me?
CARSON MCCULLERS -
The trouble with me is that for a long time I have just been an I person.
CARSON MCCULLERS -
Jesus would be framed and in jail if he was living today.
CARSON MCCULLERS -
Once you have lived with another, it is a great torture to have to live alone.
CARSON MCCULLERS -
If you look around, at times the value may seem to be little or nothing at all. Often after you have sweated and tried and things are not better for you, there comes a feeling deep down in the soul that you are not worth much.
CARSON MCCULLERS