I'd rather be a born-once hog than a born-again Christian any day.

- Carolyn Chute

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…

- Carolyn Chute

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 al…

- Carolyn Chute

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 fri…

- Carolyn Chute

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

- Carolyn Chute

If I can be writing, I can take a certain amount of control when so much around me is upsetting.

- Carolyn Chute

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…

- Carolyn Chute