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.
daughter morning nice
She serves me a piece of it a few minutes out of the oven. A little steam rises from the slits on top. Sugar and spice - cinnamon - burned into the crust. But she's wearing these dark glasses in the kitchen at ten o'clock in the morning - everything nice - as she watches me break off a piece, bring it to my mouth, and blow on it. My daughter's kitchen, in winter. I fork the pie in and tell myself to stay out of it. She says she loves him. No way could it be worse.
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.
mistake looks
You've got to work with your mistakes until they look intended. Understand?
insight
What good are insights? They only make things worse.