Quotes by : Raymond Carver

V.S. Pritchett's definition of a short story is 'something glimpsed from the corner of the eye, in passing.'....

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

Then I said something. I said, Suppose, just suppose, nothing had ever happened. Suppose this was for....

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

Grief"Woke up early this morning and from my bedlooked far across the Strait to seea small boat moving....

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

They had laughed. They had leaned on each other and laughed until the tears had come, while everything....

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

I loved you so much once. I did. More than anything in the whole wide world. Imagine that. What a laugh....

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