Quote

We knew our days were numbered. We had fouled up our lives and we were getting ready for a shake-up.

Raymond Carver

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Raymond Carver
Age: 50 †
Born: 1938
Born: May 25
Died: 1988
Died: August 2
Author
Novelist
Poet
Prosaist
Screenwriter
Writer
Clatskanie
Oregon
Numbered
Shake
Shakes
Ready
Knew
Days
Getting
Lives
Fouled

More quotes by Raymond Carver

Image
Get in, get out. Don't linger. Go on.
Raymond Carver
Image
In the beginning, when I was trying to write, I couldnt turn off the outside world to the extent that I can now.
Raymond Carver
Image
My life is going to change. I feel it.
Raymond Carver
Image
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 do you explain that? What happened to that love? What happened to it, is what I'd like to know. I wish someone could tell me.
Raymond Carver
Image
Remember Haydn's 104 symphonies. Not all of them were great. But there were 104 of them.
Raymond Carver
Image
There was this funny thing of anything could happen now that we realized everything had.
Raymond Carver
Image
I think a little menace is fine to have in a story. For one thing, it's good for the circulation.
Raymond Carver
Image
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 liar.
Raymond Carver
Image
I'm always learning something. Learning never ends.
Raymond Carver
Image
Don’t complain, don’t explain.
Raymond Carver
Image
She won't give him back his look.
Raymond Carver
Image
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. We are having a good time here. But hope all will be revealed soon.
Raymond Carver
Image
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 the window at the rain. And gave over. Put myself entirely in the keep of this rainy morning. Would I live my life over again? Make the same unforgivable mistakes? Yes, given half a chance. Yes.
Raymond Carver
Image
The smooth stones you pick up and examine under the moon's light have been made blue from the sea. Next morning when you pull them from your trouser pocket, they are still blue.
Raymond Carver
Image
What good are insights? They only make things worse.
Raymond Carver
Image
Anyone can express himself or herself, but what writers and poets want to do in their work, more than simply express themselves, is communicate.
Raymond Carver
Image
Then I said something. I said, Suppose, just suppose, nothing had ever happened. Suppose this was for the first time. Just suppose. It doesn't hurt to suppose. Say none of the other had ever happened. You know what I mean? Then what? I said.
Raymond Carver
Image
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 never came.
Raymond Carver
Image
There is no God, and conversation is a dying art.
Raymond Carver
Image
I guess my writing has changed as my life has.
Raymond Carver