More quotes by Cormac McCarthy

"The priest therefore saw what the anchorite could not. That God needs no witness. Neither to himself nor against. The truth is rather that if there were no God then there could be no witness for there could be no identity to the world but only each man's opinion of it. The priest saw that there is no man who is elect because there is no man who is not. To God every man is a heretic."
"I don't know why I started writing. I don't know why anybody does it. Maybe they're bored, or failures at something else."
"I never had any doubts about my abilities. I knew I could write. I just had to figure out how to eat while doing this.[Cormac McCarthy's Venomous Fiction, New York Times, April 19, 1992]"
"You are either born a writer or you are not."
"My perfect day is sitting in a room with some blank paper. That's heaven. That's gold and anything else is just a waste of time."