He said that whether a man's life was writ in a book someplace or whether it took its form day by day… — Cormac McCarthy Copy Share Image
The core of literature is the idea of tragedy... You don't really learn much from the good things that happen to you. — Cormac McCarthy Copy Share Image
“Creative work is often driven by pain. It may be that if you don't have something in the back of your head… — Cormac McCarthy Copy Share Image
“I’m not interested in writing short stories. Anything that doesn’t take years of your life and drive you to suicide hardly seems… — Cormac McCarthy Copy Share Image
I don't know why I started writing. I don't know why anybody does it. Maybe they're bored, or failures at something else. — Cormac McCarthy Copy Share Image
My perfect day is sitting in a room with some blank paper. That's heaven. That's gold, and anything else is just a… — Cormac McCarthy Copy Share Image
“I like what I do. Some writers have said in print that they hated writing and it was just a chore and… — Cormac Mccarthy Copy Share Image
“I never had any doubts about my abilities. I knew I could write. I just had to figure out how to eat… — Cormac McCarthy Copy Share Image
I like what I do. Some writers have said in print that they hated writing and it was just a chore and… — Cormac McCarthy Copy Share Image
Creative work is often driven by pain. It may be that if you don't have something in the back of your head… — Cormac McCarthy Copy Share Image
The cooler days have brought a wistful mood upon him. The smell of coalsmoke in the air at night. Old times, dead years. For… — Cormac McCarthy Copy Share Image
“The events of the world can have no separate life from the world. And yet the world itself can have no temporal view of… — Cormac McCarthy Copy Share Image
“I had two dreams about him after he died. I dont remember the first one all that well but it was about meetin him… — Cormac McCarthy Copy Share Image
“You think people was meaner then than they are now? the deputy said. The old man was looking out at the flooded town. No,… — Cormac McCarthy Copy Share Image
“They set forth in a crimson dawn where sky and earth closed in a razorous plane. Out there dark little archipelagos of cloud and… — Cormac McCarthy Copy Share Image
“Nothing. Where all was burnt to ash before them no fires were to be had and the nights were long and dark and cold… — Cormac McCarthy Copy Share Image
He said that whether a man's life was writ in a book someplace or whether it took its form day by day was one… — Cormac McCarthy Copy Share Image
“He lives in a room above a courtyard behind a tavern and he comes down at night like some fairybook beast to fight with… — Cormac McCarthy Copy Share Image
“Ultimo hombre. Last man standing, must've been one. Where'd he go?” — Cormac McCarthy Copy Share Image
“To seek out the upright. No fall but preceded by a declination. He took great marching steps into the nothingness, counting them against his… — Cormac McCarthy Copy Share Image
“They went through the last of the cars and then walked up the track to the locomotive and climbed up to the catwalk. Rust… — Cormac McCarthy Copy Share Image
“Night fell upon them dark and starblown and the wagon grew swollen near mute with dew. On their chairs in such black immobility these… — Cormac McCarthy Copy Share Image
![“Creative work is often driven by pain. It may be that if you don't have something in the back of your head driving you nuts, you may not do anything. It's not a good arrangement. If I were God, I wouldn't have done it that way. [Interview, The Wall Street Journal , Nov. 20, 2009]” quote by Cormac McCarthy](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/6fc/cormac-mccarthy-181_authorship_creative-work-is-often-driven-by-pain-it_628097.jpg)
![“I never had any doubts about my abilities. I knew I could write. I just had to figure out how to eat while doing this. [ Cormac McCarthy's Venomous Fiction , New York Times, April 19, 1992]” quote by Cormac McCarthy](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/605/cormac-mccarthy-181_ability_i-never-had-any-doubts-about-my-abilitie_1633212.jpg)
