Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
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
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
Becoming
Alcoholic
Strange
Thief
Start
Alcoholics
Never
Liar
Life
Thieves
Cheat
Liars
Intention
Bankrupt
More quotes by Raymond Carver
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
I think a little menace is fine to have in a story. For one thing, it's good for the circulation.
Raymond Carver
My life is going to change. I feel it.
Raymond Carver
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
That's all we have, finally, the words, and they had better be the right ones.
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
Get in, get out. Don't linger. Go on.
Raymond Carver
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
Honey, no offense, but sometimes I think I could shoot you and watch you kick.
Raymond Carver
I guess my writing has changed as my life has.
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 is short and the water is rising.
Raymond Carver
Dreams, you know, are what you wake up from.
Raymond Carver
Remember Haydn's 104 symphonies. Not all of them were great. But there were 104 of them.
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
A great danger, or at least a great temptation, for many writers is to become too autobiographical in their approach to their fiction. A little autobiography and a lot of imagination are best.
Raymond Carver
What good are insights? They only make things worse.
Raymond Carver
The fiction Im most interested in has lines of reference to the real world.
Raymond Carver
Every great or even every very good writer makes the world over according to his own specifications.
Raymond Carver
You're a beautiful drunk, daughter. But you're a drunk.
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
