Raymond Carver
Raymond Carver
Raymond Clevie Carver, Jr.was an American short-story writer and poet. Carver contributed to the revitalization of the American short story in literature during the 1980s...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPoet
Date of Birth25 May 1938
CityClatskanie, OR
CountryUnited States of America
writing changed
I guess my writing has changed as my life has.
writing trying world
In the beginning, when I was trying to write, I couldnt turn off the outside world to the extent that I can now.
writing judged
Writers will be judged by what they write.
writing want poet
Anyone can express himself or herself, but what writers and poets want to do in their work, more than simply express themselves, is communicate.
responsibility writing stories
My circumstances of unrelieved responsibility and permanent distraction necessitated the short story form.
writing has-beens been-in-love
You have to have been in love to write poetry.
writing imagination littles
A little autobiography and a lot of imagination are best.
writing thinking littles
I think a little menace is fine to have in a story. For one thing, it's good for the circulation.
writing world very-good
Every great or even every very good writer makes the world over according to his own specifications.
writing expression talking
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. It is his world and no other. This is one of the things that distinguishes one writer from another. Not talent. There's plenty of that around. But a writer who has some special way of looking at things and who gives artistic expression to that way of looking: that writer may be around for a time.
writing admire wells
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.
writing literature crafts
There are significant moments in everyone's day that can make literature. That's what you ought to write about.
writing insightful stories
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 chair, a window curtain, a fork, a stone, a woman's earring—with immense, even startling power.
writing heart character
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, quietly. Ideally, we'll ponder what we've just written or read; maybe our hearts or intellects will have been moved off the peg just a little from where they were before. Our body temperature will have gone up, or down, by a degree. Then, breathing evenly and steadily once more, we'll collect ourselves, writers and readers alike, get up, "created of warm blood and nerves" as a Chekhov character puts it, and go on to the next thing: Life. Always life.