Best Raymond Carver Sayings
- He wondered if she wondered if he were watching her. Funny
- All of us, all of us, all of us trying to save our immortal souls, some ways seemingly more round about and mysterious than others.… All
- Happiness. It comes on unexpectedly. And goes beyond, really, any early morning talk about it. Any
- It's akin to style, what I'm talking about, but it isn't style alone. It is the writer's particular and unmistakable signature on everything he writes.… Akin
- Ralph also took some classes in philosophy and literature and felt himself on the brink of some kind of huge discovery about himself. But it… Brink
- I’d like to go out in the front yard and shout something. “None of this is worth it!” That’s what I’d like people to hear. D Like
- There was a time when I thought I loved my first wife more than life itself. But now I hate her guts. I do. How… Explain
- 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… Blow
- The places where water comes together with other water. Those places stand out in my mind like holy places. Comes Together
- Don’t complain, don’t explain. Complain
- I'm always learning something. Learning never ends. Always Learning
- What do any of us really know about love? Any
- All this, all of this love we're talking about, it would just be a memory. Maybe not even a memory. Am I wrong? Am I… Admit
- Nights without beginning that had no end. Talking about a past as if it'd really happened. Telling themselves that this time next year, this time… Beginning
- And what did you want? To call myself beloved, to feel myself beloved on the earth. Beloved
- If we're lucky, writer and reader alike, we'll finish the last line or two of a short story and then just sit for a minute,… Alike
- Woke up this morning with a terrific urge to lie in bed all day and read. Fought against it for a minute. Then looked out… All
- Something’s died in me,” she goes. “It took a long time for it to do it, but it’s dead. You’ve killed something, just like you’d… Axe
- 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 no… Anymore
- 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… Approach
- Life and death matters, yes. And the question of how to behave in this world, how to go in the face of everything. Time is… Behave
- I think marriage is one of those things that writers draw on, one of those emotional reservoirs that go way back. Draw
- I guess my writing has changed as my life has. Changed