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Film writer

Carson McCullers was an American author known for her unique literary style and profound insights into human nature. Her works, often set in the American South, explored themes such as loneliness, love, and identity.

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Famous Carson McCullers Quotes

“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.”

People Made Loneliness Identity Essentials Independent Weather

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

People Giving Made Might Longing Heart Is A Lonely Hunter

Book:The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter

Source: The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter

“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.”

Ifs Years Looks Made Two Ends Done Would Be Today Lasts Jesus Church Thousand Spokes Jail Thousand Years Framed

Book:The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter

Source: The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter

“She was afraid of these things that made her suddenly wonder who she was, and what she was going to be in the world, and why she was standing at that minute, seeing a light, or listening, or staring up into the sky: alone.”

World Made Light Wonder Seeing Sky Minutes Listening Standing Staring

Book:The Member of the Wedding

Source: The Member of the Wedding

“People felt themselves watching him even before they knew that there was anything different about him. His eyes made a person think that he heard things that no one else had ever heard, that he knew things no one had ever guessed before. He did not seem quite human.”

People Thinking Humans Persons Made Different Seems Eye Felt Heard His Eyes

Book:The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter

Source: The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter

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

People Writing Made Loneliness Essentials Aquariums

Book:Carson McCullers: Stories, Plays & Other Writings

Source: Carson McCullers: Stories, Plays & Other Writings

About the Author

Born: February 19, 1917
Died: September 29, 1967
Known for: Film writer
Quotes: 152

Books & Sources

The Heart Is a Lonely HunterRelated source material

Collected Stories of Carson McCullersRelated source material

Clock Without HandsRelated source material

The Mortgaged Heart: Selected WritingsRelated source material

Reflections in a Golden EyeRelated source material

The Ballad of the Sad CafeRelated source material

Carson McCullers: Stories, Plays & Other WritingsRelated source material

The Ballad of the Sad Café and Other StoriesRelated source material

The Member of the WeddingRelated source material

Illumination and night glare: the unfinished autobiography of Carson McCullersRelated source material

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