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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 -
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
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Life is a matter of courtship and wooing, flirting and chatting.
Carolyn See -
Very much as men project weird fantasies on women, the people in New York project weird fantasies on California.
Carolyn See -
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 -
You don't want to burden some poor wretch with the entire story of your life.
Carolyn See -
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 -
I don't think I'm interested in writing women's novels anymore.
Carolyn See