Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
I think a little menace is fine to have in a story. For one thing, it's good for the circulation.
Raymond Carver
Share
Change background
T
T
T
Change font
Original
TAGS & TOPICS
Raymond Carver
Age: 50 †
Born: 1938
Born: May 25
Died: 1988
Died: August 2
Author
Novelist
Poet
Prosaist
Screenwriter
Writer
Clatskanie
Oregon
Thing
Circulation
Good
Menace
Think
Fine
Thinking
Story
Stories
Littles
Little
Writing
More quotes by Raymond Carver
Get in, get out. Don't linger. Go on.
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 no good anymore.
Raymond Carver
You're a beautiful drunk, daughter. But you're a drunk.
Raymond Carver
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
I'm always learning something. Learning never ends.
Raymond Carver
You have to have been in love to write poetry.
Raymond Carver
I am a cigarette with a body attached to it
Raymond Carver
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.
Raymond Carver
Happiness. It comes on unexpectedly. And goes beyond, really, any early morning talk about it.
Raymond Carver
I could hear my heart beating. I could hear everyone's heart. I could hear the human noise we sat there making, not one of us moving, not even when the room went dark.
Raymond Carver
We knew our days were numbered. We had fouled up our lives and we were getting ready for a shake-up.
Raymond Carver
I dressed and went for a walk - determined not to return until I took in what Nature had to offer.
Raymond Carver
there isn't enough of anything as long as we live. But at intervals a sweetness appears and, given a chance prevails.
Raymond Carver
Honey, no offense, but sometimes I think I could shoot you and watch you kick.
Raymond Carver
There is no answer. It's okay. But even if it wasn't okay, what am I supposed to do?
Raymond Carver
The fiction Im most interested in has lines of reference to the real world.
Raymond Carver
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
A little autobiography and a lot of imagination are best.
Raymond Carver
This is awful. I don't know what's going to happen to me or to anyone else in the world.
Raymond Carver
Dreams, you know, are what you wake up from.
Raymond Carver
