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
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.
doctors hands half
Doctors, by God; washing their hands, looking out windows, fiddling with dreadful things while you are stretched out on a table or half undressed on a chair.
world certainty
The world is certainty a sudden place.
climbing hardest
Coming down was the hardest part of any climbing.
lonely heart hunters
The Heart is a Lonely Hunter.
real details stores
You don't know what it is to store up a lot of details and then come upon something real.
beautiful swamps poison
A most mediocre person can be the object of a love which is wild, extravagant, and beautiful as the poison lillies of the swamp.
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.
torture
Once you have lived with another, it is a great torture to have to live alone.
taken soul feelings
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? 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.
love-is quality determined
The value and quality of any love is determined solely by the lover himself.
children heart world
But the hearts of small children are delicate organs. A cruel beginning in this world can twist them into curious shapes.
writing passion love-is
Love is the main generator of all good writing... Love, passion, compassion, are all welded together.
knows who-you-are
To know who you are, you have to have a place to come from.