Raymond Carver Quotes
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There are significant moments in everyone's day that can make literature. That's what you ought to write about.
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Fiction shows the external effects of internal conditions. Be aware of the tension between internal and external movement.
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I think a little menace is fine to have in a story. For one thing, it's good for the circulation.
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Writers will be judged by what they write.
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Remember Haydn's 104 symphonies. Not all of them were great. But there were 104 of them.
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My life is going to change. I feel it.
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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…
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A little autobiography and a lot of imagination are best.
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Write about what you know, and what do you know better than your own secrets?
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Art doesn't have to do anything. It just has to be there for the fierce pleasure we take in doing it.
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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 read.
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I dressed and went for a walk - determined not to return until I took in what Nature had to offer.
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You have to have been in love to write poetry.
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A man can go along obeying all the rules and then it don't matter a damn anymore.
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There is no God, and conversation is a dying art.
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Anyone can express himself or herself, but what writers and poets want to do in their work, more than simply express themselves, is communicate.
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Mel thought real love was nothing less than spiritual love. He'd said he'd spent five years in a seminary before quitting to go to medical…
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Get in, get out. Don't linger. Go on.
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Dreams, you know, are what you wake up from.
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I am too nervous to eat pie.
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