It's possible, in a poem or short story, to write about commonplace things and objects using commonplace but precise language, and to endow those things—a chair, a window curtain, a fork, a stone, a woman's earring—with immense, even startling power.

Raymond Carver


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Booze takes a lot of time and effort if you're going to do a good job with it.

Raymond Carver

Stichwörter: booze



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I hate tricks. At the first sign of a trick or gimmick in a piece of fiction, a cheap trick or even an elaborate trick, I tend to look for cover. Tricks are ultimately boring, and I get bored easily, which may go along with my not having much of an attention span. But extremely clever chi-chi writing, or just plain tomfoolery writing, puts me to sleep. Writers don't need tricks or gimmicks or even necessarily need to be the smartest fellows on the block. At the risk of appearing foolish, a writer sometimes needs to be able to just stand and gape at this or that thing- a sunset or an old shoe- in absolute and simple amazement.

Raymond Carver

Stichwörter: instructional



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and did you get what you wanted from this life even so? i did.

Raymond Carver


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Hay en el alma un deseo de no pensar. De estar quieto. Emparejado con éste, un deseo de ser estricto, sí, y riguroso. Pero el alma también es una afable hija de puta no siempre de fiar.

Raymond Carver


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Weeks later, she said: 'The guy was about middle-aged. All his things right there in his yard. No lie. We got real pissed and danced. In the driveway. Oh, my God. Don't laugh. He played us these records. Look at this record-player. The old guy gave it to us. And all these crappy records. Will you look at this shit?'

She kept talking. She told everyone. There was more to it, and she was trying to get it talked out. After a time, she quit trying

Raymond Carver


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That morning she pours Teacher's over my belly and licks it off. That afternoon she tries to jump out the window.

Raymond Carver

Stichwörter: humor



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life was a stone cutting and grinding...

Raymond Carver


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there isn't enough of anything
as long as we live. But at intervals
a sweetness appears and, given a chance
prevails.

Raymond Carver

Stichwörter: life poetry



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My circumstances of unrelieved responsibility and permanent distraction necessitated the short story form.

Raymond Carver

Stichwörter: writing inspiration work work-ethic



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