Quote by: Cormac McCarthy

He lay on his back in his blankets and looked our where the quartermoon lay cocked over the heel of the mountains. In the false blue dawn the Pleiades seemed to be rising up into the darkness above the world and dragging all the stars away, the great diamond of Orion and Cepella and the signature of Cassiopeia all rising up through the phosphorous dark like a sea-net. He lay a long time listening to the others breathing in their sleep while he contemplated the wildness about him, the wildness within.


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Author Bio


  • NameCormac McCarthy
  • DescriptionAmerican novelist, playwright, and screenwriter
  • AliasesCharles McCarthy
  • BornJuly 20, 1933
  • CountryUnited States Of America
  • ProfessionWriter; Novelist; Playwright; Screenwriter
  • WorksSuttree; Blood Meridian; All The Pretty Horses; The Border Trilogy; No Country For Old Men; The Road
  • AwardsPEN/Faulkner Award For Fiction; National Book Award; Pulitzer Prize For Fiction; Maltese Falcon Award; Guggenheim Fellowship; MacArthur Fellows Program; James Tait Black Memorial Prize; Lillian Smith Book Award