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, for one reason or another, it usually takes about a year of sort of dicking around before I start up. I write a review or little magazine pieces and touring with the other book. But mainly… — Carolyn See Copy Share
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 his eighteenth beer. They want a family that is so much fun and is so smart that they look forward to Thanksgiving rather than regarding it with a shudder. That's the glitter part. The stable part… — Carolyn See Copy Share
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
