It's akin to style, what I'm talking about, but it isn't style alone. It is the writer's particular and unmistakable signature on everything he writes. It is his world and no other. This is one of the things that distinguishes one writer from another. Not talent. There's plenty of that around. But a writer who has some special way of looking at things and who gives artistic expression to that way of looking: that writer may be around for a time.
Isak Dinesen said that she wrote a little every day, without hope and without despair. I like that. - Raymond Carver
Isak Dinesen said that she wrote a little every day, without hope and without despair. I like that.
- Raymond Carver
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. - Raymond Carver
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.
Dreams, you know, are what you wake up from. - Raymond Carver
Dreams, you know, are what you wake up from.
That's all we have, finally, the words, and they had better be the right ones. - Raymond Carver
That's all we have, finally, the words, and they had better be the right ones.
Write about what you know, and what do you know better than your own secrets? - Raymond Carver
Write about what you know, and what do you know better than your own secrets?
there isn't enough of anything as long as we live. But at intervals a sweetness appears and, given a chance prevails. - Raymond Carver
there isn't enough of anything as long as we live. But at intervals a sweetness appears and, given a chance prevails.
You're a beautiful drunk, daughter. But you're a drunk. - Raymond Carver
You're a beautiful drunk, daughter. But you're a drunk.
Art doesn't have to do anything. It just has to be there for the fierce pleasure we take in doing it. - Raymond Carver
Art doesn't have to do anything. It just has to be there for the fierce pleasure we take in doing it.
And what did you want? To call myself beloved, to feel myself beloved on the earth. - Raymond Carver
And what did you want? To call myself beloved, to feel myself beloved on the earth.
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