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Writing Quotes by Raymond Carver
- There are significant moments in everyone's day that can make literature. That's what you ought to write about.
- I think a little menace is fine to have in a story. For one thing, it's good for the circulation.
- Writers will be judged by what they write.
- A little autobiography and a lot of imagination are best.
- Write about what you know, and what do you know better than your own secrets?
- 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.
- You have to have been in love to write poetry.
- Anyone can express himself or herself, but what writers and poets want to do in their work, more than simply express themselves, is communicate.
- That's all we have, finally, the words, and they had better be the right ones.
- Every great or even every very good writer makes the world over according to his own specifications.
- It's possible, in a poem or short story, to write about commonplace things and objects using commonplace but precise language, and to endow those things—a…
- 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.…
- 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,…
- I guess my writing has changed as my life has.
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