Carson McCullers Quotes about Struggle

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The writer by nature of his profession is a dreamer and a conscious dreamer. He must imagine, and imagination takes humility, love and great courage. How can you create a character without live and the struggle that

The writer by nature of his profession is a dreamer and a conscious dreamer. He must imagine, and imagination takes humility, love and great courage. How can you create a character without live and the struggle that goes with love?

Carson McCullers

Struggle, Character, Humility

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 grow, budding silently, and there are a thousand illuminations coming day by day as the work progresses. A seed grows in writing as in nature. The seed of the idea is developed by both labor and the unconscious, and the struggle that goes on between them.

Carson McCullers

Dream, Art, Struggle

Carson McCullers (1975). “The mortgaged heart”, Penguin Books Ltd

The seed of the idea is developed by both labor and the unconscious, and the struggle that goes on between them.

Carson McCullers

Struggle, Ideas, Goes On

Carson McCullers (2005). “The Mortgaged Heart: Selected Writings”, p.275, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

For in a swift radiance of illumination he saw a glimpse of human struggle and valor. Of the endless fluid passage of the humanity through endless time. And of those who labor and of those who - one word- love. His soul expanded. But for a moment only. For in him, he felt a warning, a shaft of terror.

Carson McCullers

Love, Struggle, Endless Time

Carson McCullers, Carlos L. Dews (2001). “Illumination and night glare: the unfinished autobiography of Carson McCullers”, Univ of Wisconsin Pr