Carson McCullers Quotes About Writing

Quotes about: Writing

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

  Carson McCullers

  Loneliness, Writing, Aquariums

  Carson McCullers (2017). “Carson McCullers: Stories, Plays & Other Writings”, p.302, Library of America

• This fear is one of the horrors of an author's life. Where does work come from? What chance, what small episode will start the chain of creation? I once wrote a story about a writer who could not write anymore, and my friend Tennessee Williams said, 'How could you dare write that story, it's the most frightening work I have ever read.' I was pretty well sunk while I was writing it.

  Carson McCullers

  Writing, Doe, Tennessee

  Carson McCullers, Carlos L. Dews (2001). “Illumination and night glare: the unfinished autobiography of Carson McCullers”, Univ of Wisconsin Pr

• 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

  Writing, Feelings, Different

• Writing, for me, is a search for God.

  Carson McCullers

  Writing

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

  Carson McCullers

  Passion, Writing, Love Is

  Carson McCullers (2005). “The Mortgaged Heart: Selected Writings”, p.281, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

• Love is the bridge that leads from the I sense to the We, and there is a paradox about personal love. Love of another individual opens a new relation between the personality and the world. The lover responds in a new way to nature and may even write poetry. Love is affirmation; it motivates the yes responses and the sense of wider communication. Love casts out fear, and in the security of this togetherness we find contentment, courage. We no longer fear the age-old haunting questions: "Who am I?" "Why am I?" "Where am I going?" - and having cast out fear, we can be honest and charitable.

  Carson McCullers

  Communication, Writing, Love Is

• The dimensions of a work of art are seldom realized by the author until the work is accomplished. It is like a flowering dream. Ideas grow, budding silently, and there are a thousand illuminations coming day by day as the work progresses. A seed grows in writing as in nature. The seed of the idea is developed by both labor and the unconscious, and the struggle that goes on between them.

  Carson McCullers

  Dream, Art, Struggle

  Carson McCullers (1975). “The mortgaged heart”, Penguin Books Ltd

• The writer must hew the phantom rock.

  Carson McCullers

  Writing, Rocks, Phantoms

  Carson McCullers (1998). “Collected Stories of Carson McCullers”, p.193, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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