I like Raymond Carver's poetry a lot.

Much can they praise the trees so straight and high, The sailing pine,the cedar proud and tall, The vine-prop elm, the poplar never dry,…

— Edmund Spenser

It was stone carvers in ancient Rome, scribes in the Middle Ages, all the way through Gutenberg to the present day. That's a pretty…

— Michael Bierut

We're doing Circle of Snakes, we open up with Skin Carver and we are throwing in Skull Forest later on.

— Glenn Danzig

I will try not to panic, to keep my standard of living modest and to work steadily, even shyly, in the spirit of those…

— John Updike

I read Carver. Julio Cortazar. Amis's essays. Baldwin. Lorrie Moore. Capote. Saramago. Larkin. Wodehouse. Anything, anything at all, that doesn't sound like me.

— Zadie Smith

Carved with figures strange and sweet, All made out of the carver's brain.

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Carver's best book yet! FROM A CHANGELING STAR combines deft characterization and fascinating extrapolation into a complex, compulsively readable thriller. I wish all science…

— Craig Shaw Gardner

Jeffrey Carver imagines wonders and allows us to share his vision.

— Terry Carr

“Cal Carver’s last day on Earth started badly, improved momentarily, then rapidly went downhill. It began with him being sentenced to two years in…

— Barry J. Hutchison

That became my aesthetic - a very Chekhovian, American realist aesthetic in the tradition of Raymond Carver, Richard Ford, and Tobias Wolff. The perfectible,…

— Jess Row

“I don't know much about him. He is a carver in our bishop's city, a days journey from here; he has a great reputation…

— Hermann Hesse

Raymond Carver had the quote that I loved about how he felt that a short story was the moment right before someone's life was…

— Molly Antopol

“I did not have to learn to love you: You were chosen for me. I knew that the first time I saw you. —George…

— Marilyn Nelson

“As a panting Tracy Ferris scrambled into the life-pod, this thought was precisely what was running through her already agitated mind. From the very…

— Christina Engela

I would be writing and trying to write like Joan Didion. Or if I was reading Raymond Carver. You know, strong stylists. But that's…

— David Sedaris