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
except follow given poetry worse writer
When you're writing fiction or poetry... it really comes down to this: indifference to everything except what you're doing... A young writer could do worse than follow the advice given in those lines.
marriage writers
I think marriage is one of those things that writers draw on, one of those emotional reservoirs that go way back.
different wells bottom
In short, everything about his life was different for him at the bottom of that well.
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.
imagination temptation littles
A great danger, or at least a great temptation, for many writers is to become too autobiographical in their approach to their fiction. A little autobiography and a lot of imagination are best.
despair littles said
Isak Dinesen said that she wrote a little every day, without hope and without despair. I like that.
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.
insight
What good are insights? They only make things worse.