Quote

A writer soon discovers he has no single identity but lives the lives of all the people he creates and his weathers are independent of the actual day around him. I live with the people I create and it has always made my essential loneliness less keen.

Carson McCullers

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Carson McCullers
Age: 50 †
Born: 1917
Born: February 19
Died: 1967
Died: September 29
Film Writer
Novelist
Playwright
Poet
Prosaist
Screenwriter
Writer
Columbus
Georgia
Lula Carson Smith
Carson McCullers
Around
Identity
Discovers
Live
Independent
Keen
Made
Soon
Actual
Always
Writer
Creates
People
Single
Weather
Create
Loneliness
Less
Essential
Lives
Essentials
Weathers

More quotes by Carson McCullers

Image
The music left only this bad hurt in her, and a blankness. She could not remember any of the symphony, not even the last few notes. She tried to remember, but no sound at all came to her. Now that it was over there was only her heart like a rabbit and this terrible hurt.
Carson McCullers
Image
The seed of the idea is developed by both labor and the unconscious, and the struggle that goes on between them.
Carson McCullers
Image
The closest thing to being cared for is to care for someone else.
Carson McCullers
Image
I have never gone to a doctor in my adult life, feeling instinctively that doctors meant either cutting or, just as bad, diet.
Carson McCullers
Image
There are the lover and the beloved, but these two come from different countries.
Carson McCullers
Image
When a person knows and can't make the others understand, what does he do?
Carson McCullers
Image
While Time, The endless idiot, runs screaming round the world.
Carson McCullers
Image
I'm not explaining this right. What happened was this. There were these beautiful feelings and loose little pleasures inside me. And this woman was something like an assembly line for my soul. I run these little pieces of myself through her and I come out complete. Now do you follow me?
Carson McCullers
Image
There was hope in him, and soon perhaps the outline of his journey would take form.
Carson McCullers
Image
Comparing the Brooklyn that I know with Manhattan is like comparing a comfortable and complacent duenna to her more brilliant and neurotic sister.
Carson McCullers
Image
How can the dead be truly dead when they still live in the souls of those who are left behind?
Carson McCullers
Image
Resentment is the most precious flower of poverty.
Carson McCullers
Image
Love is a joint experience between two persons -- but the fact that it is a joint experience does not mean that it is a similar experience to the two people involved.
Carson McCullers
Image
Death is the great gamer with a sleeve of tricks.
Carson McCullers
Image
Her face felt like it was scattered in pieces and she could not keep it straight. The feeling was a whole lot worse than being hungry for any dinner, yet it was like that. I want--I want--I want--was all that she could think about--but just what this real want was she did no know.
Carson McCullers
Image
Coming down was the hardest part of any climbing.
Carson McCullers
Image
Maybe when people longed for a thing that bad the longing made them trust in anything that might give it to them.
Carson McCullers
Image
Next to music beer was best.
Carson McCullers
Image
I see a green tree. And to me it is green. And you would call the tree green also. And we would agree on this. But is the colour you see as green the same colour I see as green?
Carson McCullers
Image
She was afraid of these things that made her suddenly wonder who she was, and what she was going to be in the world, and why she was standing at that minute, seeing a light, or listening, or staring up into the sky: alone.
Carson McCullers