B. J. Chute Quotes

I firmly believe every book was meant to be written.

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

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.

Grammar is to a writer what anatomy is to a sculptor, or the scales to a musician. You may loathe it, it may bore you, but nothing will replace it, and once mastered it will support you like a rock.

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

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

I've never signed a contract, so never have a deadline. A deadline's an unnerving thing. I just finish a book, and if the publisher doesn't like it, that's his privilege.

If it ran, a Bean would shoot it. If it fell, a Bean would eat it.

If it ran, a Bean would eat it. If it fell, a Bean would eat it.