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Every great or even every very good writer makes the world over according to his own specifications. — Raymond Carver

So as near as I could tell the end of the world began roughly about the time that Billy Carver's butt rang about halfway through the War of 1812. — Steve Vernon

I'm always learning something. Learning never ends. — Raymond Carver

How useful Mr. Carver's Esperanto would be, she thought. (Only if everyone spoke it, of course.) — Kate Atkinson

The college was run by a man called Mr. Carver whose lifelong passions were Esperanto and Pitman's shorthand, the latter more useful than the former. — Kate Atkinson

Let's be real. Like I would date someone who didn't go out of their way to be my nemesis." - Shane Carver (The Carver's Magic) — B.L. Brooklyn

There isn't enough of anything
as long as we live. But at intervals
a sweetness appears and, given a chance
prevails. — Raymond Carver

Write from the soul, not from some notion about what you think the marketplace wants.The market is fickle; the soul is eternal'. — Jeffrey 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

I think a little menace is fine to have in a story. For one thing, it's good for the circulation. — Raymond Carver

There is no God, and conversation is a dying art. — Raymond Carver

The fiction I'm most interested in has lines of reference to the real world. — 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

The trouble with radicals is that they only read radical literature, and the trouble with conservatives is that they don't read anything — Thomas Nixon Carver

If you have to choose one critical ingredient of success, it's passion. — Carver Mead

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

Surprising how many people assumed that when a helicopter failed it simply rotored on down. Truth was, it fell with the aerodynamics of a grand piano. — Carver Greene

Beth is the kind of girl you want to stuff into a trunk, wrapped in plastic" - Shane Carver (Quote from: The Carver's Magic) — B.L. Brooklyn

George Washington Carver explained, "Anything will give up its secrets if you love it enough." Mindfulness is this kind — Jack Kornfield

He wondered if she wondered if he were watching her. — Raymond Carver

Since new developments are the products of a creative mind, we must therefore stimulate and encourage that type of mind in every way possible. — George Washington Carver

I read a lot of short fiction, like Kurt Vonnegut and Raymond Carver and Wells Tower. — Lorde

Plain Kate, Kate the Carver
No one's friend and no one's daughter
Little Kate might meet her fate
Whittling sticks till it's too late — Erin Bow

I guess my writing has changed as my life has. — Raymond Carver

saw he'd been shot. His shirt . . — Caroline Carver

One of the things that has helped me as much as any other is not how long I am going to live, but how much I can do while living. — George Washington Carver

I know that my Redeemer lives. Thank God I love humanity, complexion doesn't interest me one single a bit. — George Washington Carver

When you do the common things in life in an uncommon way, you will command the attention of the world — George Washington Carver

After a minute, you continue writing.
she screams again.
you wonder how long this can go on. — Raymond Carver

Remember Haydn's 104 symphonies. Not all of them were great. But there were 104 of them. — Raymond Carver

My purpose alone must be God's purpose. — George Washington Carver

To those who have not yet learned the secret of true happiness, begin now to study the little things in your own door yard. — George Washington Carver

The men who began their life's work on [the cathedrals], they never lived to see the completion of their work. — Raymond Carver

My short stories have always pushed twenty pages. That's no length for a short story to be. You either do them short like Carver or you stop trying. — Zadie Smith

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

There are significant moments in everyone's day that can make literature. That's what you ought to write about. — Raymond Carver

It's easy to have a complicated idea. It's very hard to have a simple idea. — Carver Mead

Carver was truculent: "What's a good part of it? — John Sandford

Empathy is the starting point for creating a community and taking action. It's the impetus for creating change. — Max 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

Legality is just the name for everything that's not dangerous for the ruling order. — Hari Kunzru

All flowers talk to me and so do hundreds of little living things in the woods. I learn what I know by watching and loving everything. — George Washington Carver

Learn to do common things uncommonly well; we must always keep in mind that anything that helps full the dinner pail is valuable. — George Washington Carver

A wise youth counselor once told me, "Don't ask what God's will is for you." Simply ask, "What is God's will? — Lee Carver

There is literally nothing that I ever asked to do, that I asked the blessed Creator to help me to do, that I have not been able to accomplish. — George Washington Carver

How far you go in life depends on ... — George Washington Carver

There is no answer. It's okay. But even if it wasn't okay, what am I supposed to do? — Raymond Carver

The greatest trick the devil ever pulled was convincing the world he was evil. — Edmund Carver

While there is no cure, cystic fibrosis is so close to being a livable disease. There is a lot of hope. — Max Carver

Such beauty that for a minute
death and ambition, even love,
doesn't enter into this. — 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

We're doing Circle of Snakes, we open up with Skin Carver and we are throwing in Skull Forest later on. — Glenn Danzig

My lungs are thick with the smoke of your absence. — Raymond Carver

Don't complain, don't explain. — Raymond Carver

All my life I have risen regularly at four o'clock and have gone into the woods and talked to God. There He gives me my orders for the day. — George Washington Carver

The secret of my success? It is simple. It is found in the Bible. — George Washington Carver

Listen to the technology; find out what it's telling you. — Carver Mead

What good are insights? They only make things worse. — Raymond Carver

Without my Savior, I am nothing. — George Washington 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

There is no short cut to achievement. Life requires thorough preparation - veneer isn't worth anything. — George Washington Carver

He who puts a product upon the market as it demands, controls that market, regardless of color. It is simply a survival of the fittest. — George Washington Carver

It's not a terribly original thing to say, but I love Raymond Carver. For one thing, he's fun to read out loud. — Ira Glass

Let us rejoice at the many unexplored fields in which there is unlimited fame and fortune to the successful explorer ... — George Washington Carver

If you listen carefully enough to anything, it will talk to you. — George Washington Carver

I think a lot of our team commitment is a silent understanding that each one of us has poured our life into what we're doing. — Claire Carver-Dias

You're a beautiful drunk, daughter. But you're a drunk. — Raymond Carver

Being appointed Elder Professor meant very much taking over the shop, in that the professor in those days controlled all the moneys. — John Henry Carver

God gave them [the discoveries] to me; how can I sell them to someone else? — George Washington Carver

You knew I would find you and you knew what I'd do when I did." -Cort (The Carver's Problem) — B.L. Brooklyn

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

That's all we have, finally, the words, and they had better be the right ones. — 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

Nothing is more beautiful than the loveliness of the woods before sunrise. — George Washington Carver

You have to have been in love to write poetry. — Raymond Carver

There are two ways, one is right; the other is wrong. If your work is only about right, then it is wrong. — George Washington Carver

Never a day passes but that I do myself the honor to commune with some of nature's varied forms. — George Washington Carver

I dressed and went for a walk - determined not to return until I took in what Nature had to offer. — Raymond Carver

I was so pleased to be at university to do physics and mathematics. — John Henry Carver

Carved with figures strange and sweet, All made out of the carver's brain. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Write what you know, and what do you know better than your own secrets? — Raymond Carver

I found that when I talk to the little flower or to the little peanut they will give up their secrets ... — George Washington Carver

Do what you can, with what you have and do it now! — George Washington Carver

life was a stone cutting and grinding... — Raymond Carver

Whatever you love opens its secrets to you. — George Washington Carver

So in fact, narrowing down our choices means less overwhelm, and more creativity. — Courtney Carver

I've done as many as 20 or 30 drafts of a story. Never less than 10 or 12 drafts. — 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

Ninety-nine percent of the failures come from people who have the habit of making excuses. — George Washington Carver

I believe the right question to ask, respecting all ornament, is simply this; was it done with enjoyment, was the carver happy while he was about it? — John Ruskin

We knew our days were numbered. We had fouled up our lives and we were getting ready for a shake-up. — Raymond Carver

You can't teach people anything. You can only draw out. — George Washington 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