Carolyn Chute Quotes

Carolyn Chute

American Writer

Born: Jun 14, 1947

Life Like People Time Writing You

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I like starting projects in January. That's the best time to start something. It's so inward. Carolyn Chute

Time Best Projects Best Time Something Like Inward January Start Starting

Today's world is very cruel. Carolyn Chute

Today World Cruel Very

We don't want the government to have anything we don't have, because government isn't 'We The People' anymore. Carolyn Chute

Government People Because Want Anymore Anything

I have lived poverty. I didn't choose it. No one would choose humiliation, pain, and rage. Carolyn Chute

Humiliation Poverty Pain Rage Would No-One Choose Lived

Because school was so terrible was probably why I was driven to write. Carolyn Chute

School Write Driven Terrible Because Why

People say, 'Well, why don't they get another job, why don't they pick themselves up by their bootstraps?' Well, the people that say that probably have the kind of jobs where they don't work that hard, so maybe they could have another job. Carolyn Chute

Work People Job Say Jobs Kind Bootstraps People Say Could Pick Well Another Up Get Maybe Where Themselves Hard Why

People who work in factories or in the woods or maybe a dairy farm - for years, I've been fascinated with people like that. No pretensions. They just live their lives. I found them beautiful. They were all I seemed to be interested in writing about. Carolyn Chute

When we go out in the world together, we don't get beat down. Carolyn Chute

Together World Down Out Beat Go Get

There's no writer's block; there's only distraction. Carolyn Chute

Distraction Only Writer Block

Sometimes a manuscript is like bread dough. You have to abuse it. Carolyn Chute

You Sometimes Abuse Like Bread Dough Manuscript

When I write, I just let my characters go, the way I let life go. Carolyn Chute

Life Way Characters Write Go Just

When I'm not writing, I do a lot of research reading on the shape of civilization. Fiction can be a lot of different things... but I feel like it's my job to write about the way things are. Carolyn Chute

Writing Job Reading Research Way About Civilization Write Shape Feel Like Lot Different Fiction Different Things Things

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