Carson McCullers Quotes

United States, Writer
February 19, 1917 – September, 29, 1967.

Carson McCullers was 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.

Also known as Novelist, Playwright, Essayist, Poet

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

Carson McCullers
- Night
- Fall
- Quiet
Owing to the fact he was a mute they were able to give him all the qualities they wanted him to have.

Carson McCullers
- Giving
- Quality
- Able

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
Writing, for me, is a search for God.

Carson McCullers
- Writing
But all the time-no matter what she was doing-there was music.

Carson McCullers
- Matter
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.

Carson McCullers
- Night
- Childhood
- Memories
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.

Carson McCullers
- Feelings
- Cheated
It was like they waited to tell each other things that had never been told before. What she had to say was terrible and afraid. But what he would tell her was so true that it would make everything all right. Maybe it was a thing that could not be spoken with words or writing. Maybe he would have to let her understand this in a different way. That was the feeling she had with him.

Carson McCullers