Character Quote by Carson McCullers

“Because things accumulate around your name," said Berenice. "You have a name and one thing after another happens to you, and you behave in…

— Carson McCullers

It was like she was cheated. Only nobody had cheated her. So there was nobody to take it out on. However, just the same…

— Carson McCullers

“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…

— Carson McCullers

The thinking mind is best controlled by the imagination.

— Carson McCullers

“He was like a man who had served a term in prison or had been to Harvard College or had left for a long…

— Carson McCullers

Comparing the Brooklyn that I know with Manhattan is like comparing a comfortable and complacent duenna to her more brilliant and neurotic sister.

— Carson McCullers

“Son, do you know how love should be begun?" The boy sat small and listening and still. Slowly he shook his head. The old…

— Carson McCullers

The most fatal thing a man can do is try to stand alone.

— Carson McCullers

The dimensions of a work of art are seldom realized by the author until the work is accomplished. It is like a flowering dream.…

— Carson McCullers

Now hoppin'-john was F. Jasmine's very favorite food. She had always warned them to wave a plate of rice and peas before her nose…

— Carson McCullers

There's nothing that makes you so aware of the improvisation of human existence as a song unfinished. Or an old address book.

— Carson McCullers

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

— Carson McCullers