Quotes from Cormac McCarthy
Keep a little fire burning; however small, however hidden.
- Cormac McCarthy
I never had any doubts about my abilities. I knew I could write. I just had to figure out how to eat while doing
- Cormac McCarthy
This is what the good guys do. They keep trying. They don't give up.
- Cormac McCarthy
Nobody wants to be here and nobody wants to leave.
- Cormac McCarthy
Every day is a lie. But you are dying. That is not a lie.
- Cormac McCarthy
It is not my experience that life's difficulties make people more charitable.
- Cormac McCarthy
On this road there are no godspoke men. They are gone and I am left and they have taken with them the world.
- Cormac McCarthy
He rocked in the swells, floating like the first germ of life adrift on the earth's cooling seas, formless macule of plasm trapped in a vapor drop and all creation yet to come.
- Cormac McCarthy
He didn't say a lot so I tend to remember what he did say. And I don't remember that he had a lot of patience with havin to say things twice so I learned to listen the first time.
- Cormac McCarthy
Ever is a long time. But the boy knew what he knew. That ever is no time at all.
- Cormac McCarthy
Life is a memory, then it is nothing. All law is writ in a seed.
- Cormac McCarthy
What joins men together ... is not the sharing of bread but the sharing of enemies.
- Cormac McCarthy