It's my experience that you first feel the impulse to write in your chest. It's like falling in love, only more so. It feels like something criminal. It feels like unspeakably wild sex. So, think: When you feel the overpowering… — Carolyn See Copy Share Image
I don't think you think of your audience as much as you think, when you're revising, how it holds together. I mean I think the first draft is art, and the second draft, third, fourth draft is craft. Putting it… — Carolyn See Copy Share Image
“Finally, it was the city that held us, the city they said had no center, that all of us had come to from all… — Carolyn See Copy Share Image
A great novelist must open the reader's heart, allow the reader to remember the vastness and glory -- and shame and shabbiness -- of… — Carolyn See Copy Share Image
“Everyone in the world should read this book... We should read it to learn about the world and what it means to be human. ” — Carolyn See Copy Share Image
I don't know what people think they're trying to do with literary novels, but they're trying to do something. They're trying to change the… — Carolyn See Copy Share Image
I figure 1000 words a day, or four pages, and sometimes I'll write more, but I'll try not to. Because I think you don't… — Carolyn See Copy Share Image
I notice that I only publish once every four years. It takes a couple of years to write a book and then, for me,… — Carolyn See Copy Share Image
Women want a family life that glitters and is stable. They don't want some lump spouse watching ice hockey in the late hours of… — Carolyn See Copy Share Image
It's my experience that you first feel the impulse to write in your chest. It's like falling in love, only more so. It feels… — Carolyn See Copy Share Image
Reality is when you pay the rent. Get caught in traffic or your car breaks down. Really it's an AM/FM sort of thing. You've… — Carolyn See Copy Share Image
Every word a woman writes changes the story of the world, revises the official version. — Carolyn See Copy Share Image
I'm absolutely not an athletic person, but I used to be married to a runner. He would say that, especially in long-distance races, you… — Carolyn See Copy Share Image
I try to write in the morning when I'm working on a novel. You get up, you have breakfast, you read the paper, you… — Carolyn See Copy Share Image
I play the same album over and over until the people in my house are ready to kill me. — Carolyn See Copy Share Image
“You can go a surprisingly long time without figuring out the kind of person you are and in what direction your life is taking… — Carolyn See Copy Share Image
