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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
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Raymond Carver
Age: 50 †
Born: 1938
Born: May 25
Died: 1988
Died: August 2
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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.
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Honey, no offense, but sometimes I think I could shoot you and watch you kick.
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That's all we have, finally, the words, and they had better be the right ones.
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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.
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The fiction Im most interested in has lines of reference to the real world.
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What good are insights? They only make things worse.
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Every great or even every very good writer makes the world over according to his own specifications.
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I dressed and went for a walk - determined not to return until I took in what Nature had to offer.
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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.
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Isak Dinesen said that she wrote a little every day, without hope and without despair. I like that.
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I think a little menace is fine to have in a story. For one thing, it's good for the circulation.
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I am a cigarette with a body attached to it
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In the beginning, when I was trying to write, I couldnt turn off the outside world to the extent that I can now.
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Dreams, you know, are what you wake up from.
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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.
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When a reader finishes a wonderful story and lays it aside, he should have to pause for a minute and collect himself.
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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.
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Get in, get out. Don't linger. Go on.
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