Quotes by : Raymond Carver

I'm a heart surgeon, sure, but I'm just a mechanic. I go in and I fuck around and I fix things. Shit.....

If we're lucky, writer and reader alike, we'll finish the last line or two of a short story and then....

The places where water comes together with other water. Those places stand out in my mind like holy places.....

It ought to make us feel ashamed when we talk like we know what we're talking about when we talk about....

Write what you know, and what do you know better than your own secrets?

I've crossed some kind of invisible line. I feel as if I've come to a place I never thought I'd have....

Happiness. It comes onunexpectedly. And goes beyond, really,any early morning talk about it.

It's possible, in a poem or a short story, to write about commonplace things and objects using commonplace....

I don't fire up the prose. I just tell it straight and don't fool around with it.

There was a time when I thought I loved my first wife more than life itself. But now I hate her guts.....