Carolyn See Quotes

• Every word a woman writes changes the story of the world, revises the official version.

  Carolyn See

  Women, Writing, Stories

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• I don't know what people think they're trying to do with literary novels, but they're trying to do something. They're trying to change the world, although that's so crazy. That's just delusional. But I recognize that it's crazy. It will be a little dinky change.

  Carolyn See

  Crazy, Thinking, People

  Source: www.psychologytoday.com

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• A great novelist must open the reader's heart, allow the reader to remember the vastness and glory -- and shame and shabbiness -- of what it is to be human.

  Carolyn See

  Heart, Novelists, Vastness

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• It's my experience that you first feel the impulse to write in your chest. It's like falling in love, only more so. It feels like something criminal. It feels like unspeakably wild sex. So, think: When you feel the overpowering need to go out and find some unspeakably wild sex, do you rush to tell your mom about it?

  Carolyn See

  Mom, Falling In Love, Sex

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• I'm absolutely not an athletic person, but I used to be married to a runner. He would say that, especially in long-distance races, you could tell who was going to win and who wasn't, and if the person was present behind his eyes, if he was looking around and paying attention, you could be pretty sure he wasn't going to win. The person who was tranced out had a much better chance of winning. Because he or she had lost his or her governing self.

  Carolyn See

  Distance, Eye, Winning

  Source: www.psychologytoday.com

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• I figure 1000 words a day, or four pages, and sometimes I'll write more, but I'll try not to. Because I think you don't want to exhaust what it is you're writing about, so the next day you would have to gear up for a brand new scene.

  Carolyn See

  Writing, Thinking, Next Day

  Source: www.psychologytoday.com

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• Women want a family life that glitters and is stable. They don't want some lump spouse watching ice hockey in the late hours of his eighteenth beer. They want a family that is so much fun and is so smart that they look forward to Thanksgiving rather than regarding it with a shudder. That's the glitter part. The stable part is, obviously, they don't want to be one bead on a long necklace of wives. They want, just like men, fun, love, fame, money and power. And equal pay for equal work.

  Carolyn See

  Fun, Women, Smart

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• Reality is when you pay the rent. Get caught in traffic or your car breaks down. Really it's an AM/FM sort of thing. You've got reality and then there's the miraculous and the transcendent. And once you start, time stops.

  Carolyn See

  Reality, Car, Pay

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• I try to write in the morning when I'm working on a novel. You get up, you have breakfast, you read the paper, you make a couple of phone calls, and then you sit on the couch and start. I use felt pen and white notepaper.

  Carolyn See

  Morning, Couple, Writing

  Source: www.psychologytoday.com

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• I play the same album over and over until the people in my house are ready to kill me.

  Carolyn See

  Play, People, House

  Source: www.psychologytoday.com

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• I don't think you think of your audience as much as you think, when you're revising, how it holds together. I mean I think the first draft is art, and the second draft, third, fourth draft is craft. Putting it together so that it has a good pattern.

  Carolyn See

  Art, Mean, Thinking

  Source: www.psychologytoday.com

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• I notice that I only publish once every four years. It takes a couple of years to write a book and then, for me, for one reason or another, it usually takes about a year of sort of dicking around before I start up. I write a review or little magazine pieces and touring with the other book. But mainly it's just you're not ready, I'm not ready to start another. You're just not up for it.

  Carolyn See

  Couple, Book, Writing

  Source: www.psychologytoday.com

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