Writing, for me, is a search for God.
CARSON MCCULLERSA seed grows in writing as in nature. The seed of the idea is developed by both labor and the unconscious, and the struggle that goes on between them.
More Carson McCullers Quotes
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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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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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A most mediocre person can be the object of a love which is wild, extravagant, and beautiful as the poison lillies of the swamp.
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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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Through the lies, she lived vicariously. The lies doubled the little of her existence that was left over from work and augmented the little rag end of her personal life.
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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 human heart is a lonely hunter-but the search for us southerners is more anguished.
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Death is the great gamer with a sleeve of tricks.
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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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There is no stillness like the quiet of the first cold nights in the fall.
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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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There are the lover and the beloved, but these two come from different countries.
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Resentment is the most precious flower of poverty.
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Sometimes this fellow’s music was like little colored pieces of crystal candy, and other times it was the softest, saddest thing she had ever imagined about.
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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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All people belong to a We except me. Not to belong to a We makes you too lonesome.
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I must go home periodically to renew my sense of horror.
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Southerners are the more lonely and spiritually estranged, I think, because we have lived so long in an artificial social system that we insisted was natural and right and just – when all along we knew it wasn’t.
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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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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?
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The memories of childhood are like clear candles in an acre of night, illuminating fixed scenes from surrounding darkness.
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I see a green tree. And to me it is green. And you would call the tree green also. And we would agree on this. But is the colour you see as green the same colour I see as green?
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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?
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Love of another individual opens a new relation between the personality and the world. The lover responds in a new way to nature and may even write poetry.
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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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The trouble with me is that for a long time I have just been an I person.
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