Writing is like meditation or going into an ESP trance, or prayer. Like dreaming. You are tapping into your unconscious. To be fully conscious and alert, with life banging and popping and cuckooing all around, you are not going to… — Carolyn Chute Copy Share Image
I feel at times that I'm making up these little people and I've lost my mind. — Carolyn Chute Copy Share Image
I feel like a lot of time my writing is like having about twenty boxes of Christmas decorations. But no tree. You're going, Where… — Carolyn Chute Copy Share Image
If I can be writing, I can take a certain amount of control when so much around me is upsetting. — Carolyn Chute Copy Share Image
Writing is like meditation or going into an ESP trance, or prayer. Like dreaming. You are tapping into your unconscious. To be fully conscious… — Carolyn Chute Copy Share Image
That’s the way we see life: your community is your survival. And if you live in a small community like this, even the people… — Carolyn Chute Copy Share Image
The writing process is sort of like when you've got no electricity and you've gotten up in the middle of the night to find… — Carolyn Chute Copy Share Image
