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Writers will be judged by what they write.
— Raymond Carver
Anyone can express himself or herself, but what writers and poets want to do in their work, more than simply express themselves, is communicate.
— Raymond Carver
You're ... writing for other writers to an extent-the dead writers whose work you admire, as well as the living writers you like to read.
— Raymond Carver
Every great or even every very good writer makes the world over according to his own specifications.
— Raymond Carver
I'm always learning something. Learning never ends.
— Raymond Carver
There isn't enough of anythingas long as we live. But at intervals
a sweetness appears and, given a chance
prevails. — Raymond Carver
Dreams, you know, are what you wake up from.
— Raymond Carver
Art doesn't have to do anything. It just has to be there for the fierce pleasure we take in doing it.
— Raymond Carver
This is awful. I don't know what's going to happen to me or to anyone else in the world.
— Raymond Carver
He seemed full of some goodness she didn't understand
— Raymond Carver
That morning she pours Teacher's over my belly and licks it off. That afternoon she tries to jump out the window.
— Raymond Carver
Happiness. It comes on unexpectedly. And goes beyond, really, any early morning talk about it.
— Raymond Carver
I am too nervous to eat pie.
— Raymond Carver
I think a little menace is fine to have in a story. For one thing, it's good for the circulation.
— Raymond Carver
A man without hands came to the door to sell me a photograph of my house. Except for the chrome hooks, he was an ordinary-looking man of fifty or so.
— Raymond Carver
There is no God, and conversation is a dying art.
— Raymond Carver
But dying is for the sweetest ones. And he remembers sweetness, when life was sweet, and sweetly he was given that other lifetime.
— Raymond Carver
In the beginning, when I was trying to write, I couldn't turn off the outside world to the extent that I can now.
— Raymond Carver
In short, everything about his life was different for him at the bottom of that well.
— Raymond Carver
It is August.My life is going to change. I feel it. — Raymond Carver
My circumstances of unrelieved responsibility and permanent distraction necessitated the short story form.
— Raymond Carver
My life is going to change. I feel it.
— Raymond Carver
There are significant moments in everyone's day that can make literature. That's what you ought to write about.
— Raymond Carver
When a reader finishes a wonderful story and lays it aside, he should have to pause for a minute and collect himself.
— Raymond Carver
I am a cigarette with a body attached to it
— Raymond Carver
I want to hide from it, that's what I want to do. I want to just close my eyes and let it pass by. Let it take the next man.
— Raymond Carver
Why don't you kids dance? he decided to say, and then said it. "Why don't you dance?
— Raymond Carver
He did not know what to do. Not just now, he thought, not just in this, not just about this, today and tomorrow, but every day on the earth.
— Raymond Carver
They talked on into the early morning, the high, pale cast of light in the windows, and they did not think of leaving.
— Raymond Carver
Isak Dinesen said that she wrote a little every day, without hope and without despair. I like that.
— Raymond Carver
There was this funny thing of anything could happen now that we realized everything had.
— Raymond Carver
Remember Haydn's 104 symphonies. Not all of them were great. But there were 104 of them.
— Raymond Carver
I'd like to go out in the front yard and shout something. "None of this is worth it!" That's what I'd like people to hear.
— Raymond Carver
I'm moving to Nevada. Either there or kill myself.
— Raymond Carver
Fiction shows the external effects of internal conditions. Be aware of the tension between internal and external movement.
— Raymond Carver
I thought for a minute of the world outside my house, and then I didn't have any more thoughts except the thought that I had to hurry up and sleep.
— Raymond Carver
I crack the other egg.Surely we have diminished one another. — Raymond Carver
The men who began their life's work on [the cathedrals], they never lived to see the completion of their work.
— Raymond Carver
The places where water comes together with other water. Those places stand out in my mind like holy places.
— Raymond Carver
I lifted him out. I held him. I held that half of him.
— Raymond Carver
Don't complain, don't explain.
— Raymond Carver
I think marriage is one of those things that writers draw on, one of those emotional reservoirs that go way back.
— Raymond Carver
There's literary creation and literary business. When I first got something accepted, it gave my life a validation it didn't otherwise have.
— Raymond Carver
We knew our days were numbered. We had fouled up our lives and we were getting ready for a shake-up.
— Raymond Carver
Do me a favor this morning. Draw the curtain and come back to bed.Forget the coffee. We'll pretend
we're in a foreign country, and in love. — Raymond Carver
Get in, get out. Don't linger. Go on.
— Raymond Carver
My lungs are thick with the smoke of your absence.
— Raymond Carver
I dressed and went for a walk - determined not to return until I took in what Nature had to offer.
— Raymond Carver
What good are insights? They only make things worse.
— Raymond Carver
How far would you run with a piece of lead in your heart?
— Raymond Carver
Raymond Carver is good. I think he'll be appreciated more and more. He's an easy writer to imitate.
— Leslie Fiedler
What do any of us really know about love?
— Raymond Carver
You're a beautiful drunk, daughter. But you're a drunk.
— Raymond Carver
It's strange. You never start out life with the intention of becoming a bankrupt or an alcoholic or a cheat and a thief. Or a liar.
— Raymond Carver
And did you get what you wanted from this life even so? i did.
— Raymond Carver
You have to have been in love to write poetry.
— Raymond Carver
life was a stone cutting and grinding...
— Raymond Carver
I guess my writing has changed as my life has.
— Raymond Carver
After a minute, you continue writing.she screams again.
you wonder how long this can go on. — Raymond Carver
He wondered if she wondered if he were watching her.
— Raymond Carver
My heart is broken," she goes. "It's turned to a piece of stone. I'm no good. That's what's as bad as anything, that I'm no good anymore.
— Raymond Carver
Maybe once, maybe years ago, I was a different kind of human being. I've forgotten, I don't know for sure.
— Raymond Carver
Such beauty that for a minutedeath and ambition, even love,
doesn't enter into this. — Raymond Carver
There is no answer. It's okay. But even if it wasn't okay, what am I supposed to do?
— Raymond Carver
She won't give him back his look.
— Raymond Carver
The light was draining out of the room, going back through the window where it had come from.
— Raymond Carver
