Carson McCullers

Carson McCullers
Carson McCullerswas an American novelist, short story writer, playwright, essayist, and poet. Her first novel, The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter, explores the spiritual isolation of misfits and outcasts in a small town of the U.S. South. Her other novels have similar themes and most are set in the deep South...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth19 February 1917
CityColumbus, GA
CountryUnited States of America
lonely heart hunters
The human heart is a lonely hunter-but the search for us southerners is more anguished.....
real details stores
You don't know what it is to store up a lot of details and then come upon something real.
mistake coffins noses
Now hoppin'-john was F. Jasmine's very favorite food. She had always warned them to wave a plate of rice and peas before her nose when she was in her coffin, to make certain there was no mistake; for if a breath of life was left in her, she would sit up and eat, but if she smelled the hopping-john, and did not stir, then they could just nail down the coffin and be certain she was truly dead.
squares roots and-love
The theme is the theme of humiliation, which is the square root of sin, as opposed to the freedom from humiliation, and love, which is the square root of wonderful.
lonely heart hunters
The Heart is a Lonely Hunter.
hero men giving
Some men are heroes by nature in that they will give all that is in them without regard to the effort or to the personal returns.
justice yardsticks chimera
justice itself is a chimera, a delusion. Justice is not a flat yardstick, applied in equal measure to an equal situation.
taken hands sick
People, unless they are nilly-willy or very sick, cannot be taken into the hands and be changed overnight into somthing more worth-while and profitable.
manhattan brooklyn brilliant
Comparing the Brooklyn that I know with Manhattan is like comparing a comfortable and complacent duenna to her more brilliant and neurotic sister.
cat climbing tree
I was like a cat always climbing the wrong tree.
speak speak-the-truth
That was the best of all. To speak the truth and be attended.
world certainty
The world is certainty a sudden place.
climbing hardest
Coming down was the hardest part of any climbing.
writing doe tennessee
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? 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.