Raymond Carver
Raymond Carver
Raymond Clevie Carver, Jr.was an American short-story writer and poet. Carver contributed to the revitalization of the American short story in literature during the 1980s...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPoet
Date of Birth25 May 1938
CityClatskanie, OR
CountryUnited States of America
long dirt like-you
Something’s died in me,” she goes. “It took a long time for it to do it, but it’s dead. You’ve killed something, just like you’d took an axe to it. Everything is dirt now.
different wells bottom
In short, everything about his life was different for him at the bottom of that well.
memories believe laughing
I loved you so much once. I did. More than anything in the whole wide world. Imagine that. What a laugh that is now. Can you believe it? We were so intimate once upon a time I can't believe it now. The memory of being that intimate with somebody. We were so intimate I could puke. I can't imagine ever being that intimate with somebody else. I haven't been.
morning lying book
Woke up this morning with a terrific urge to lie in bed all day and read.
fiction movement crafts
Fiction shows the external effects of internal conditions. Be aware of the tension between internal and external movement.
ends always-learning
I'm always learning something. Learning never ends.
stories done
I've done as many as 20 or 30 drafts of a story. Never less than 10 or 12 drafts.
pie nervous
I am too nervous to eat pie.
return determined trekking
I dressed and went for a walk - determined not to return until I took in what Nature had to offer.
this-life wanted
and did you get what you wanted from this life even so? i did.
goes-on
Get in, get out. Don't linger. Go on.
liars becoming thieves
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.
symphony remember
Remember Haydn's 104 symphonies. Not all of them were great. But there were 104 of them.
life-is feels
My life is going to change. I feel it.