Cormac McCarthy , an American novelist and playwright, has written twelve novels in the Southern Gothic, western, and post-apocalyptic genres and has also written plays and screenplays.
He received the Pulitzer Prize in 2007 for The Road, and 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.
“Scars have the strange power to remind us that our past is real.”
― Cormac McCarthy, All the Pretty Horses
“You never know what worse luck your bad luck has saved you from.”
― Cormac McCarthy, No Country for Old Men
“Whatever in creation exists without my knowledge exists without my consent.”
― Cormac McCarthy, Blood Meridian, or, the Evening Redness in the West
“Keep a little fire burning; however small, however hidden.”
― Cormac McCarthy, The Road
“War was always here. Before man was, war waited for him. The ultimate trade awaiting its ultimate practitioner.”
― Cormac McCarthy, Blood Meridian, or, the Evening Redness in the West
