239 Quotes by Carson McCullers

The writer must hew the phantom rock.

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

What are the sources of an illumination? To me, they come after hours of searching and keeping my soul ready. Yet they come in a flash, as a religious phenomenon. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter had such an illumination, beginning my long search for the truth of the story and flashing light into the long two years ahead.

But look what the Church has done to Jesus during the last two thousand years. What they have made of Him. How they have turned every word He spoke for their own vile ends. Jesus would be framed and in jail if he was living today.

For in a swift radiance of illumination he saw a glimpse of human struggle and valor. Of the endless fluid passage of the humanity through endless time. And of those who labor and of those who - one word- love. His soul expanded. But for a moment only. For in him, he felt a warning, a shaft of terror.

Next to music beer was best.

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

There was something about speaking in a foreign language that made her feel like she’d been around a lot.

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