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....

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

They talked on into the early morning, the high, pale cast of light in the windows, and they did not....

But dying is for the sweetest ones. And he remembers sweetness, when life was sweet, and sweetly he was....

I'm moving to Nevada. Either there or kill myself.

I lifted him out. I held him. I held that half of him.

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

That's all we have, finally, the words, and they had better be the right ones.

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