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 usuall…

- Carolyn See

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…

- Carolyn See

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 …

- Carolyn See

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. …

- Carolyn See

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…

- Carolyn See

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, an…

- Carolyn See

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

- Carolyn See

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.…

- Carolyn See

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, alt…

- Carolyn See