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Raymond Carver quotes: Writers will be judged by what they write. Writers will be judged by what they write.
Raymond Carver quotes: Anyone can express himself or herself, but what writers and poets want to do in their work, more than simply express themselves, is communicate. 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 quotes: A man can go along obeying all the rules and then it don't matter a damn anymore. A man can go along obeying all the rules and then it don't matter a damn anymore.
Raymond Carver quotes: 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. 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 quotes: Every great or even every very good writer makes the world over according to his own specifications. Every great or even every very good writer makes the world over according to his own specifications.
Raymond Carver quotes: I'm always learning something. Learning never ends. I'm always learning something. Learning never ends.
Raymond Carver quotes: You've got to work with your mistakes until they look intended. Understand? You've got to work with your mistakes until they look intended. Understand?
Raymond Carver quotes: There isn't enough of anythingas long as we live. But at intervalsa sweetness appears and, given a chanceprevails. There isn't enough of anything
as long as we live. But at intervals
a sweetness appears and, given a chance
prevails.
Raymond Carver quotes: Dreams, you know, are what you wake up from. Dreams, you know, are what you wake up from.
Raymond Carver quotes: Honey, no offense, but sometimes I think I could shoot you and watch you kick. Honey, no offense, but sometimes I think I could shoot you and watch you kick.
Raymond Carver quotes: Art doesn't have to do anything. It just has to be there for the fierce pleasure we take in doing it. Art doesn't have to do anything. It just has to be there for the fierce pleasure we take in doing it.
Raymond Carver quotes: This is awful. I don't know what's going to happen to me or to anyone else in the world. This is awful. I don't know what's going to happen to me or to anyone else in the world.
Raymond Carver quotes: He seemed full of some goodness she didn't understand He seemed full of some goodness she didn't understand
Raymond Carver quotes: That morning she pours Teacher's over my belly and licks it off. That afternoon she tries to jump out the window. That morning she pours Teacher's over my belly and licks it off. That afternoon she tries to jump out the window.
Raymond Carver quotes: Happiness. It comes on unexpectedly. And goes beyond, really, any early morning talk about it. Happiness. It comes on unexpectedly. And goes beyond, really, any early morning talk about it.
Raymond Carver quotes: I am too nervous to eat pie. I am too nervous to eat pie.
Raymond Carver quotes: I think a little menace is fine to have in a story. For one thing, it's good for the circulation. I think a little menace is fine to have in a story. For one thing, it's good for the circulation.
Raymond Carver quotes: 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. 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 quotes: There is no God, and conversation is a dying art. There is no God, and conversation is a dying art.
Raymond Carver quotes: The fiction I'm most interested in has lines of reference to the real world. The fiction I'm most interested in has lines of reference to the real world.
Raymond Carver quotes: But dying is for the sweetest ones. And he remembers sweetness, when life was sweet, and sweetly he was given that other lifetime. 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 quotes: In the beginning, when I was trying to write, I couldn't turn off the outside world to the extent that I can now. 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 quotes: In short, everything about his life was different for him at the bottom of that well. In short, everything about his life was different for him at the bottom of that well.
Raymond Carver quotes: It is August.My life is going to change. I feel it. It is August.
My life is going to change. I feel it.
Raymond Carver quotes: My circumstances of unrelieved responsibility and permanent distraction necessitated the short story form. My circumstances of unrelieved responsibility and permanent distraction necessitated the short story form.
Raymond Carver quotes: My life is going to change. I feel it. My life is going to change. I feel it.
Raymond Carver quotes: 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. 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 quotes: They talked on into the early morning, the high, pale cast of light in the windows, and they did not think of leaving. 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 quotes: It ought to make us feel ashamed when we talk like we know what we're talking about when we talk about love. It ought to make us feel ashamed when we talk like we know what we're talking about when we talk about love.
Raymond Carver quotes: There are significant moments in everyone's day that can make literature. That's what you ought to write about. There are significant moments in everyone's day that can make literature. That's what you ought to write about.
Raymond Carver quotes: There was this funny thing of anything could happen now that we realized everything had. There was this funny thing of anything could happen now that we realized everything had.
Raymond Carver quotes: I'm moving to Nevada. Either there or kill myself. I'm moving to Nevada. Either there or kill myself.
Raymond Carver quotes: Remember Haydn's 104 symphonies. Not all of them were great. But there were 104 of them. Remember Haydn's 104 symphonies. Not all of them were great. But there were 104 of them.
Raymond Carver quotes: Fiction shows the external effects of internal conditions. Be aware of the tension between internal and external movement. Fiction shows the external effects of internal conditions. Be aware of the tension between internal and external movement.
Raymond Carver quotes: 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. 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 quotes: I crack the other egg.Surely we have diminished one another. I crack the other egg.
Surely we have diminished one another.
Raymond Carver quotes: Booze takes a lot of time and effort if you're going to do a good job with it. Booze takes a lot of time and effort if you're going to do a good job with it.
Raymond Carver quotes: I lifted him out. I held him. I held that half of him. I lifted him out. I held him. I held that half of him.
Raymond Carver quotes: 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. 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 quotes: The men who began their life's work on [the cathedrals], they never lived to see the completion of their work. The men who began their life's work on [the cathedrals], they never lived to see the completion of their work.
Raymond Carver quotes: The places where water comes together with other water. Those places stand out in my mind like holy places. The places where water comes together with other water. Those places stand out in my mind like holy places.
Raymond Carver quotes: Isak Dinesen said that she wrote a little every day, without hope and without despair. I like that. Isak Dinesen said that she wrote a little every day, without hope and without despair. I like that.
Raymond Carver quotes: I don't fire up the prose. I just tell it straight and don't fool around with it. I don't fire up the prose. I just tell it straight and don't fool around with it.
Raymond Carver quotes: When a reader finishes a wonderful story and lays it aside, he should have to pause for a minute and collect himself. When a reader finishes a wonderful story and lays it aside, he should have to pause for a minute and collect himself.
Raymond Carver quotes: You have to have been in love to write poetry. You have to have been in love to write poetry.
Raymond Carver quotes: 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. 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 quotes: You're a beautiful drunk, daughter. But you're a drunk. You're a beautiful drunk, daughter. But you're a drunk.
Raymond Carver quotes: What do any of us really know about love? What do any of us really know about love?
Raymond Carver quotes: How far would you run with a piece of lead in your heart? How far would you run with a piece of lead in your heart?
Raymond Carver quotes: What good are insights? They only make things worse. What good are insights? They only make things worse.
Raymond Carver quotes: Don't complain, don't explain. Don't complain, don't explain.
Raymond Carver quotes: My lungs are thick with the smoke of your absence. My lungs are thick with the smoke of your absence.
Raymond Carver quotes: Get in, get out. Don't linger. Go on. Get in, get out. Don't linger. Go on.
Raymond Carver quotes: Do me a favor this morning. Draw the curtain and come back to bed.Forget the coffee. We'll pretendwe're in a foreign country, and in love. 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 quotes: We knew our days were numbered. We had fouled up our lives and we were getting ready for a shake-up. We knew our days were numbered. We had fouled up our lives and we were getting ready for a shake-up.
Raymond Carver quotes: There's literary creation and literary business. When I first got something accepted, it gave my life a validation it didn't otherwise have. 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 quotes: I've done as many as 20 or 30 drafts of a story. Never less than 10 or 12 drafts. I've done as many as 20 or 30 drafts of a story. Never less than 10 or 12 drafts.
Raymond Carver quotes: I think marriage is one of those things that writers draw on, one of those emotional reservoirs that go way back. I think marriage is one of those things that writers draw on, one of those emotional reservoirs that go way back.
Raymond Carver quotes: Write what you know, and what do you know better than your own secrets? Write what you know, and what do you know better than your own secrets?
Raymond Carver quotes: I dressed and went for a walk - determined not to return until I took in what Nature had to offer. I dressed and went for a walk - determined not to return until I took in what Nature had to offer.
Raymond Carver quotes: Why don't you kids dance? he decided to say, and then said it. "Why don't you dance? Why don't you kids dance? he decided to say, and then said it. "Why don't you dance?
Raymond Carver quotes: life was a stone cutting and grinding... life was a stone cutting and grinding...
Raymond Carver quotes: I guess my writing has changed as my life has. I guess my writing has changed as my life has.
Raymond Carver quotes: After a minute, you continue writing.she screams again.you wonder how long this can go on. After a minute, you continue writing.
she screams again.
you wonder how long this can go on.
Raymond Carver quotes: He wondered if she wondered if he were watching her. He wondered if she wondered if he were watching her.
Raymond Carver quotes: 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. 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 quotes: Maybe once, maybe years ago, I was a different kind of human being. I've forgotten, I don't know for sure. Maybe once, maybe years ago, I was a different kind of human being. I've forgotten, I don't know for sure.
Raymond Carver quotes: Such beauty that for a minutedeath and ambition, even love,doesn't enter into this. Such beauty that for a minute
death and ambition, even love,
doesn't enter into this.
Raymond Carver quotes: There is no answer. It's okay. But even if it wasn't okay, what am I supposed to do? There is no answer. It's okay. But even if it wasn't okay, what am I supposed to do?
Raymond Carver quotes: She won't give him back his look. She won't give him back his look.
Raymond Carver quotes: I am a cigarette with a body attached to it I am a cigarette with a body attached to it
Raymond Carver quotes: The light was draining out of the room, going back through the window where it had come from. The light was draining out of the room, going back through the window where it had come from.
Raymond Carver quotes: That's all we have, finally, the words, and they had better be the right ones. That's all we have, finally, the words, and they had better be the right ones.
Raymond Carver quotes: I'm a heart surgeon, sure, but I'm just a mechanic. I go in and I fuck around and I fix things. Shit. I'm a heart surgeon, sure, but I'm just a mechanic. I go in and I fuck around and I fix things. Shit.
Raymond Carver quotes: And did you get what you wanted from this life even so? i did. And did you get what you wanted from this life even so? i did.
Raymond Carver quotes: 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. 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.

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