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
real thinking want
I want - I want - I want - was all that she could think about - but just what this real want was she did not know.
lonely thinking long
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.
thinking past sideways
I got to wear blinders all the time so I won't think sideways or in the past.
lonely thinking differences
I think we look for the differences in people because it makes us less lonely.
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.
knows who-you-are
To know who you are, you have to have a place to come from.
passion justice important
Passion is more important than justice.
country home simple
It is a curious emotion, this certain homesickness I have in mind. With Americans, it is a national trait, as native to us as the roller-coaster or the jukebox. It is no simple longing for the home town or country of our birth. The emotion is Janus-faced: we are torn between a nostalgia for the familiar and an urge for the foreign and strange. As often as not, we are homesick most for the places we have never known.
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.
sunday afternoon sunday-afternoons
Sunday afternoons are the longest afternoons of all ...