Who said "Loneliness is as much a refusal as it is a deprivation."?

This quote is attributed to Carson McCullers.

Loneliness is as much a refusal as it is a deprivation. - Carson McCullers

"Loneliness is as much a refusal as it is a deprivation."

Carson McCullers Solitude

Novelist American 1917–1967

"The world is a more beautiful place than I have ever suspected."

"We are all of us lonely."

"There is no doubt that in excess, almost anything is poisonous."

"A person deprived of aloneness is in prison without knowing it."

"Sometimes being the best means being the loneliest."

"Solitude gives us time to reflect on what matters"

"I'm not good with people, never have been."

"I feel like I'm disappearing."