Carolyn Chute famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

I feel at times that I'm making up these little people and I've lost my mind.
-- Carolyn Chute

#People #Mind #Littles
The writing process is sort of like when you've got no electricity and you've gotten up in the middle of the night to find the bathroom, feeling your way along in the dark. I can't hardly tell you what I do because I really don't know.
-- Carolyn Chute

#Writing #Dark #Night
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.
-- Carolyn Chute

#Writing #Cutting #Tree
Thatâ€™s the way we see life: your community is your survival. And if you live in a small community like this, even the people you hate you have as friends.
-- Carolyn Chute

#Hate #People #Community
Writing is like meditation or going into an ESP trance, or prayer. Like dreaming. You are tapping into your unconscious. To be fully conscious and alert, with life banging and popping and cuckooing all around, you are not going to find your way to your subconscious, which is a place of complete submission.
-- Carolyn Chute

#Dream #Prayer #Writing
I'd rather be a born-once hog than a born-again Christian any day ...
-- Carolyn Chute

#Christian #Religion #Born Again
That’s the way we see life: your community is your survival. And if you live in a small community like this, even the people you hate you have as friends.
-- Carolyn Chute

#Hate #People #Community
If I can be writing, I can take a certain amount of control when so much around me is upsetting.
-- Carolyn Chute

#Writing #Upset #Certain

God does not so much want us to do things as to let people see what He can do.
Often we want people to pray for us and help us, but we always defeat our object when we look too much to them and lean upon them. The true secret of union is for both to look upon God, and in the act of looking past themselves to Him they are unconsciously united.
Universities are not here to be mediums for the coercion of other people, they're here to be mediums for the free exchange of ideas.
Major sports are major parts of society. It's not anomalous to have people who love sports come from other parts of that society.
Ideas may drift into other minds, but they do not drift my way. I have to go and fetch them. I know no work manual or mental to equal the appalling heart-breaking anguish of fetching an idea from nowhere.
The mortal sickness of a mind too unhappy to be kind.
Are you really angry, or simply aware of anger in the body and mind? Don't speculate, simply look at what is there.
Middle age has been defined as what happens when a person's broad mind and narrow waist change places.
I've never before been so aware of the thousands of little good things, the thousands of things that go right every day.
I am very little inclined on any occasion to say anything unless I hope to produce some good by it.

Carolyn Chute famous quotes

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