Quotes from Carolyn Chute

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.

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.

My people are mostly underweight or overweight - however it is they turned out, like good bread. Bring back the hunched-over people... Bring back humanity.

I feel like a lot of time my writing is like having about twenty boxes of Christmas decorations. But no tree. You're going, Where do I put this? Then they go, Okay, you can have a tree, but we'll blindfold you and you gotta cut it down with a spoon.

If it ran, a Bean would eat it. If it fell, a Bean would eat it.

If it ran, a Bean would shoot it. If it fell, a Bean would eat it.

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

You go through your life feeling like an outsider, and you respond to society in a different way when you feel like an outsider.

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

Every time I think I know what's right and wrong, I end up being wrong. All I want to do is explore. I want to see what people would do. I say, 'What would this person do in this situation?' and I write it down. I'm not writing manifestos of my political views.