If I can be writing, I can take a certain amount of control when so much around me is upsetting. Carolyn Chute More Quotes by Carolyn Chute More Quotes From Carolyn Chute 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. Carolyn Chute thinkyoumatterlong I love a big book, but it's what most people like which makes commerce sing. Carolyn Chute likelovebookpeople 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. Carolyn Chute badworkforgetworld We don't want the government to have anything we don't have, because government isn't 'We The People' anymore. Carolyn Chute anythinggovernmentwantpeople I have lived poverty. I didn't choose it. No one would choose humiliation, pain, and rage. Carolyn Chute choosehumiliationpovertypain We need to stay together, to spread the truth like religion. It's a lonely, scary road, and we've got to walk it together. Carolyn Chute walktruthtogetherreligion Because school was so terrible was probably why I was driven to write. Carolyn Chute whywritebecauseschool You go through your life feeling like an outsider, and you respond to society in a different way when you feel like an outsider. Carolyn Chute feelyousocietylife 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. Carolyn Chute i-amconfusedwritingway What poor people go through, it's amazing they don't do more violent things! If they'd just give you a little dignity, it might help you stand it better. They suffer no heat, no electricity, while you're working, but then you've got to face all the insults, too. Carolyn Chute faceamazingyoupeople 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 people-sayjobworkpeople
