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
courage humility imagination
Imagination takes humility, love and great courage.
real details stores
You don't know what it is to store up a lot of details and then come upon something real.
torture
Once you have lived with another, it is a great torture to have to live alone.
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.
death gamer tricks
Death is the great gamer with a sleeve of tricks.
memories night light
The memories of childhood have a strange shuttling quality, and areas of darkness ring the spaces of light. The memories of childhood are like clear candles in an acre of night, illuminating fixed scenes from surrounding darkness.
speak speak-the-truth
That was the best of all. To speak the truth and be attended.
secret way truth-is
And the curt truth is that, in a deep secret way, the state of being loved is intolerable to many.
flower poverty resentment
Resentment is the most precious flower of poverty.
journey form outlines
There was hope in him, and soon perhaps the outline of his journey would take form.
wise faces towns
In his face there came to be a brooding peace that is seen most often in the faces of the very sorrowful or the very wise. But still he wandered through the streets of the town, always silent and alone.
miracle understanding facts
There are those who know and those who don't know. And for every ten thousand who don't know there's only one who knows. That's the miracle of all time--the fact that these millions know so much but don't know this.
running people events
For you see, when us people who know run into each other that's an event. It almost never happens. Sometimes we meet each other and neither guesses that the other is one who knows. That's a bad thing. It's happened to me a lot of times. But you see there are so few of us.