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
should-have stories wonderful
When a reader finishes a wonderful story and lays it aside, he should have to pause for a minute and collect himself.
validation firsts creation
There's literary creation and literary business. When I first got something accepted, it gave my life a validation it didn't otherwise have.
morning moon blue
The smooth stones you pick up and examine under the moon's light have been made blue from the sea. Next morning when you pull them from your trouser pocket, they are still blue.
tears cold remember
But he stays by the window, remembering that life. They had laughed. They had leaned on each other and laughed until the tears had come, while everything else—the cold and where he'd go in it—was outside, for a while anyway.
philosophy class discovery
Ralph also took some classes in philosophy and literature and felt himself on the brink of some kind of huge discovery about himself. But it never came.
mistake looks
You've got to work with your mistakes until they look intended. Understand?
heart broken pieces
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.
knows
What do any of us really know about love?
insight
What good are insights? They only make things worse.
life answers okay
There is no answer. It's okay. But even if it wasn't okay, what am I supposed to do?