Afternoon Quote by Raymond Carver

“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

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

“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

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

The places where water comes together with other water. Those places stand out in my mind like holy places.

— Raymond Carver

A man can go along obeying all the rules and then it don't matter a damn anymore.

— Raymond Carver

“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

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

Art doesn't have to do anything. It just has to be there for the fierce pleasure we take in doing it.

— Raymond Carver

“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

There are significant moments in everyone's day that can make literature. That's what you ought to write about.

— Raymond Carver

The fiction Im most interested in has lines of reference to the real world.

— Raymond Carver