Cormac McCarthy
Cormac McCarthy
Cormac McCarthyis an American novelist, playwright, and screenwriter. He has written ten novels, spanning the Southern Gothic, western, and post-apocalyptic genres. He won the Pulitzer Prize and the James Tait Black Memorial Prize for Fiction for The Road. His 2005 novel No Country for Old Men was adapted as a 2007 film of the same name, which won four Academy Awards, including Best Picture. For All the Pretty Horses, he won both the U.S. National Book Award and National Book...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth20 July 1933
CityProvidence, RI
CountryUnited States of America
People think they know what they want but they generally don't. Sometimes if they're lucky they'll get it anyways.
Teaching writing is a hustle.
The rain falls upon the just And also on the unjust fellas But mostly it falls upon the just Cause the unjust have the just's umbrellas
If the rule you followed brought you to this, of what use was the rule?
Any time you're throwin dirt you're losin ground.
How does a man decide in what order to abandon his life?
He knew only that his child was his warrant. He said: If he is not the word of God God never spoke.
You are either born a writer or you are not.
I think that when the lies are all told and forgot the truth will be there yet. It dont move about from place to place and it dont change from time to time. You cant corrupt it any more than you can salt salt.
If trouble comes when you least expect it then maybe the thing to do is to always expect it.
I can normally tell how intelligent a man is by how stupid he thinks I am.
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.
I think if you were Satan and you were settin around tryin to think up somethin that would just bring the human race to its knees what you would probably come up with is narcotics.
Every day is a lie. But you are dying. That is not a lie.