Carson McCullers

“There are the lovers and there are the beloved. This is the way it is in the world.”

“The heart is a lonely hunter.”

“We are torn between nostalgia for the familiar and an urge for the foreign and strange. As often as not, we are homesick most for the places we have never known.”

“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.”

“The mind is like a richly woven tapestry in which the colors are distilled from the experiences of the senses, and the design drawn from the convolutions of the intellect.”

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

“Writing, for me, is a search for God.”

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

“Perhaps the bitterest irony of all is that it is the loving who are the most lonely.”

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

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

“The trouble with me is that for a long time I have just been an I person.”

“A writer's main asset is his talent, but that is a frightening bird which cannot be owned or commanded.”

“Resentment is the most precious flower of poverty.”

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

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

“How can you wonder your travels do not avail you, when you carry yourself in your own company?”

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