Quote

A little autobiography and a lot of imagination are best.

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
Little
Writing
Autobiography
Imagination
Littles
Best

More quotes by Raymond Carver

Image
Honey, no offense, but sometimes I think I could shoot you and watch you kick.
Raymond Carver
Image
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
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
I am a cigarette with a body attached to it
Raymond Carver
Image
Happiness. It comes on unexpectedly. And goes beyond, really, any early morning talk about it.
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
Fiction shows the external effects of internal conditions. Be aware of the tension between internal and external movement.
Raymond Carver
Image
there isn't enough of anything as long as we live. But at intervals a sweetness appears and, given a chance prevails.
Raymond Carver
Image
There was this funny thing of anything could happen now that we realized everything had.
Raymond Carver
Image
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
Image
Dreams, you know, are what you wake up from.
Raymond Carver
Image
Get in, get out. Don't linger. Go on.
Raymond Carver
Image
That's all we have, finally, the words, and they had better be the right ones.
Raymond Carver
Image
What good are insights? They only make things worse.
Raymond Carver
Image
You have to have been in love to write poetry.
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
We knew our days were numbered. We had fouled up our lives and we were getting ready for a shake-up.
Raymond Carver
Image
Don’t complain, don’t explain.
Raymond Carver
Image
I dressed and went for a walk - determined not to return until I took in what Nature had to offer.
Raymond Carver
Image
There is no God, and conversation is a dying art.
Raymond Carver