Carson McCullers Quotes

Love is the main generator of all good writing... Love, passion, compassion, are all welded together.

Comparing the Brooklyn that I know with Manhattan is like comparing a comfortable and complacent duenna to her more brilliant and neurotic sister.

I live with the people I create and it has always made my essential loneliness less keen.

I have never gone to a doctor in my adult life, feeling instinctively that doctors meant either cutting or, just as bad, diet.

The seed of the idea is developed by both labor and the unconscious, and the struggle that goes on between them.

There are the lover and the beloved, but these two come from different countries.

Maybe when people longed for a thing that bad the longing made them trust in anything that might give it to them.

The trouble with me is that for a long time I have just been an I person. All people belong to a We except me. Not to belong to a We makes you too lonesome.

It was like she was cheated. Only nobody had cheated her. So there was nobody to take it out on. However, just the same she had that feeling. Cheated.

It is music that causes the heart to broaden and the listener to grow cold with ecstasy and fright.

I think we look for the differences in people because it makes us less lonely.

Writing, for me, is a search for God.

I am not meant to be alone and without you who understands.

I got to wear blinders all the time so I won't think sideways or in the past.

I´m a stranger in a strange land.

the way i need you is a loneliness i cannot bear.

Owing to the fact he was a mute they were able to give him all the qualities they wanted him to have.

There's nothing that makes you so aware of the improvisation of human existence as a song unfinished. Or an old address book.

I have more to say than Hemingway, and God knows, I say it better than Faulkner.

Nothing is so musical as the sound of pouring bourbon for the first drink on a Sunday morning. Not Bach or Schubert or any of those masters.

justice itself is a chimera, a delusion. Justice is not a flat yardstick, applied in equal measure to an equal situation.

The closest thing to being cared for is to care for someone else.

The most fatal thing a man can do is try to stand alone.

I want - I want - I want - was all that she could think about - but just what this real want was she did not know.

It was better to be in a jail where you could bang the walls than in a jail you could not see.

There is no stillness like the quiet of the first cold nights in the fall.

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.

We are homesick most for the places we have never known.

The thinking mind is best controlled by the imagination.

Resentment is the most precious flower of poverty.

I must go home periodically to renew my sense of horror.

The writer is by nature a dreamer - a conscious dreamer.

How can the dead be truly dead when they still live in the souls of those who are left behind?

To know who you are, you have to have a place to come from.

Falling in love is the easiest thing in the world. It's standing in love that matters.