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Writing Quotes by Carson McCullers
- 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…
- 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…
- Writing, for me, is a search for God.
- Love is the main generator of all good writing... Love, passion, compassion, are all welded together.
- The writer must hew the phantom rock.
- 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.…
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