American - Writer | June 14, 1947 -
Today's world is very cruel.
Carolyn Chute
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I never wanted to be a writer. I still don't.
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It doesn't matter that millions read as long as you share it with somebody. So I don't really think about readers or editors. You especially should never think of editors - especially never think about reviewers.
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I love a big book, but it's what most people like which makes commerce sing.
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Sadly I don't work well under restrictions. I need to forget the world and its rules and laws in order to enter the dreamlike flow of the fictional world. So I may be in some bad trouble.
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Grave silence is far more powerful than the same old voices yapping away.
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We don't want the government to have anything we don't have, because government isn't 'We The People' anymore.
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I have lived poverty. I didn't choose it. No one would choose humiliation, pain, and rage.
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Because school was so terrible was probably why I was driven to write.
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I am a person who can't teach writing or make a living in any public way, as I get confused when interrupted or overstimulated. In a classroom or crowded room, I all but blank out. So my only income is from novels.
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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.
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With upper- and middle-class lawns, there's more hidden, whereas with working-class or poor lawns, there's more out to see. It just sits right out there. Very honest. Like the people.
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