There is no answer. It's okay. But even if it wasn't okay, what am I supposed to do? — Raymond Carver Copy Share Image
In short, everything about his life was different for him at the bottom of that well. — Raymond Carver Copy Share Image
It's strange. You never start out life with the intention of becoming a bankrupt or an alcoholic or a cheat and a… — Raymond Carver Copy Share Image
You're...writing for other writers to an extent-the dead writers whose work you admire, as well as the living writers you like to… — Raymond Carver Copy Share Image
“But dying is for the sweetest ones. And he remembers sweetness, when life was sweet, and sweetly he was given that other… — Raymond Carver Copy Share Image
There's literary creation and literary business. When I first got something accepted, it gave my life a validation it didn't otherwise have. — Raymond Carver Copy Share Image
But he stays by the window, remembering that life. They had laughed. They had leaned on each other and laughed until the… — Raymond Carver Copy Share Image
“ Late Fragment And did you get what you wanted from this life, even so? I did. And what did you want?… — Raymond Carver Copy Share Image
For a long time I wanted to do the kind of work my dad did. He was going to ask his foreman… — Raymond Carver Copy Share Image
Life and death matters, yes. And the question of how to behave in this world, how to go in the face of… — Raymond Carver Copy Share Image
Most of my stories, if not all of them, have some basis in real life. That's the kind of fiction I'm most… — Raymond Carver Copy Share Image
If we're lucky, writer and reader alike, we'll finish the last line or two of a short story and then just sit… — Raymond Carver Copy Share Image
“V.S. Pritchett's definition of a short story is 'something glimpsed from the corner of the eye, in passing.' Notice the 'glimpse' part… — Raymond Carver Copy Share Image
“ Happiness So early it's still almost dark out. I'm near the window with coffee, and the usual early morning stuff that… — Raymond Carver Copy Share Image
“At least I want to get up early one more morning, before sunrise. Before the birds, even. I want to throw cold… — Raymond Carver Copy Share Image
There was a time when I thought I loved my first wife more than life itself. But now I hate her guts.… — Raymond Carver Copy Share Image
“All I know about this fine, sweaty life, my own or anyone else’s, is that in a little while I’ll rise up… — Raymond Carver Copy Share Image
“Fear of seeing a police car pull into the drive. Fear of falling asleep at night. Fear of not falling asleep. Fear of the… — Raymond Carver Copy Share Image
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… — Raymond Carver Copy Share Image
“You sound like a nice man,” the woman said. “Do I? Well, that’s nice of you to say.” He knew he should hang up… — Raymond Carver Copy Share Image
Life and death matters, yes. And the question of how to behave in this world, how to go in the face of everything. Time… — Raymond Carver Copy Share Image
The places where water comes together with other water. Those places stand out in my mind like holy places. — Raymond Carver Copy Share Image
A man can go along obeying all the rules and then it don't matter a damn anymore. — Raymond Carver Copy Share Image
“You see, this happened a few months ago, but it's still going on right now, and it ought to make us feel ashamed when… — Raymond Carver Copy Share Image
I've crossed some kind of invisible line. I feel as if I've come to a place I never thought I'd have to come to.… — Raymond Carver Copy Share Image
Art doesn't have to do anything. It just has to be there for the fierce pleasure we take in doing it. — Raymond Carver Copy Share Image
“But here is the thing. When he gets on me, I suddenly feel I am fat. I feel am terrifically fat, so fat that… — Raymond Carver Copy Share Image
There are significant moments in everyone's day that can make literature. That's what you ought to write about. — Raymond Carver Copy Share Image
The fiction Im most interested in has lines of reference to the real world. — Raymond Carver Copy Share Image
