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Carolyn Chute

(1947) Writer

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Carolyn Chute is a writer.

Quick Facts About Carolyn Chute

Born: June 14, 1947
Profession: Writer

About Carolyn Chute

[Wikidata] Novelist, essayist, activist... | [Wikipedia] Carolyn Chute is an American writer and populist political activist who is strongly identified with the culture of poor, rural western Maine. Rod Dreher, writing in The American Conservative, has referred to Chute as "a Maine novelist and gun enthusiast who, along with her husband, lives an aggressi

Quotes by Carolyn Chute

I feel at times that I'm making up these little people and I've lost my mind.

Feels

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I feel like a lot of time my writing is like having about twenty boxes of Christmas decorations. But no tree. You're…

Blindfolds

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If I can be writing, I can take a certain amount of control when so much around me is upsetting.

Amount

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Writing is like meditation or going into an ESP trance, or prayer. Like dreaming. You are tapping into your unconscious. To be…

Banging

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That’s the way we see life: your community is your survival. And if you live in a small community like this, even…

Community

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The writing process is sort of like when you've got no electricity and you've gotten up in the middle of the night…

Bathroom

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I'd rather be a born-once hog than a born-again Christian any day.

Birth

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