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
writing passion love-is
Love is the main generator of all good writing... Love, passion, compassion, are all welded together.
falling-in-love love-is matter
Falling in love is the easiest thing in the world. It's standing in love that matters.
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.
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.
pain hate forever
The curt truth is that, in a deep secret way, the state of being beloved is intolerable to many. The beloved fears and hates the lover, and with the best of reasons. For the lover is forever trying to strip bare his beloved. The lover craves any possible relation with the beloved, even if this experience can cause him only pain.
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.
years wreckage columns
His own life seemed so solitary, a fragile column supporting nothing amidst the wreckage of the years.
journey form outlines
There was hope in him, and soon perhaps the outline of his journey would take form.
home homesick should
I do not have any home. So why should I be homesick?