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Life is a matter of courtship and wooing, flirting and chatting.
Carolyn See / Professor
Chatting
Courtship
Flirting
Matter
Wooing
Life Is A
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You don't want to burden some poor wretch with the entire story of your life.
Carolyn See / Professor
Burden
Wretch
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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 / Professor
House
People
Play
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Every word a woman writes changes the story of the world, revises the official version.
Carolyn See / Professor
Women
Stories
Writing
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'A Long Way Gone' says something about human nature that we try, most of the time, to ignore.
Carolyn See / Professor
Human Nature
Long Way
Ignore
Says
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Very much as men project weird fantasies on women, the people in New York project weird fantasies on California.
Carolyn See / Professor
California
Fantasies
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'Gillespie and I' is a deliciously morbid, almost smutty story, a compendium of inappropriate wants and smarmy desires.
Carolyn See / Professor
Inappropriate
Morbid
Desires
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I hope someday to see California literature become a part of mainstream American literature, and I hope to be part of that process.
Carolyn See / Professor
American Literature
California
Mainstream
Someday
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I'd never heard of Robert Hellenga; I didn't think a book with the name 'Snakewoman of Little Egypt' would hold any appeal for me at all.
Carolyn See / Professor
Egypt
Me Never Name
Appeal
Robert
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It was in 'Esquire' in the 1970s that I first learned Nora Ephron's recipe for borscht - certainly an editorial first for that manly magazine.
Carolyn See / Professor
Manly
Editorial
Esquire
Magazine
Recipe
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I've been at the very bottom of poverty, and it's not so bad. It's even kind of interesting. You can live there with a certain amount of style.
Carolyn See / Professor
Bottom
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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 / Professor
Heart
Novelists
Vastness
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There's a saying that when you go on traveling tours, you get to know whom the designated jerk is going to be within three days, and if you don't know it by then, you're the jerk.
Carolyn See / Professor
Jerk
Tours
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If you are in any way squeamish or genteel, skip 'Gillespie and I.' If you'd like to know a little more about the seamy side of the human condition, by all means, pick this one up.
Carolyn See / Professor
Human Condition
Skip
Condition
Way Know More
Genteel
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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 / Professor
Car
Pay
Reality
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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.
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Morning
Couple
Writing
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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 / Professor
Next Day
Thinking
Writing
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'The Talk-Funny Girl' opens with a glum picture of a desperately poor rural New England family. Poverty has so brutalized the family that the ordinary laws and rules governing humanity have eroded, turning systems of behavior upside down.
Carolyn See / Professor
Behavior
England
Governing
Humanity
New England
Ordinary
Poverty
Upside Down
Rules
Picture
Turning
Desperately
Eroded
Opens
Rural
Systems
Upside
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Whenever I open a book about jazz, I turn to the index and look for Lennie Tristano, the incredible pianist; Lee Konitz, the luminous alto sax player; and Warne Marsh, the tenor player who captured some of the most beautiful sounds in the world.
Carolyn See / Professor
Captured
Luminous
Pianist
Most Beautiful Beautiful World
Alto
Beautiful Most Beautiful Look
Beautiful Look World
Lee
Marsh
Most Beautiful
Sax
Tenor
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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 / Professor
Art
Mean
Thinking
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What is 'cool,' anyway? Maybe it's Warne Marsh, almost totally obscure and penniless, coming in late to a fourth-rate Hollywood nightclub, playing like an angel with a couple of sidemen, but never speaking to or even acknowledging another human being.
Carolyn See / Professor
Angel
Hollywood
Late
Obscure
Totally
Acknowledging
Anyway
Coming
Human Being
Marsh
Nightclub
Speaking
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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.
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Crazy
People
Thinking
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Ishmael Beah was born and spent his childhood in Sierra Leone as that sad but beautiful West African country was ravaged by a civil war that left some 50,000 dead between 1991 and 2002. He was a child soldier for a while, then, through extraordinary circumstances, was set free of that life.
Carolyn See / Professor
Sad
Childhood
Circumstances
Civil War
Extraordinary
Sierra
Sierra Leone
Soldier
West
African
Dead
Extraordinary Circumstances
Spent
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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 / Professor
Mom
Falling In Love
Sex
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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 / Professor
Book
Couple
Writing
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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.
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Distance
Eye
Winning
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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 / Professor
Women
Fun
Smart
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