193 Quotes by Raymond Carver

In addition to being in love, we like each other and enjoy one another’s company.

There’s literary creation and literary business. When I first got something accepted, it gave my life a validation it didn’t otherwise have.

Then i don’t know I remembered how he was when he was nineteen, the way he looked, running across this field to where his dad sat on a tractor, hand over his eyes, watching Wes run toward him – Chef’s House.

He understood that it only took one lunatic and a torch to bring everything to ruin.

The light was draining out of the room, going back through the window where it had come from.

What’s there to tell? The people over there embrace for a minute, and then they go inside the house together. They leave the light burning. Then they remember, and it goes out.

I think a little menace is fine to have in a story. For one thing, it’s good for the circulation.

He did not know what to do. Not just now, he thought, not just in this, not just about this, today and tomorrow, but every day on the earth.

Suppose I say summer, write the word “hummingbird”, put it in an envelope, take it down the hill to the box. When you open my letter you will recall those days and how much, just how much, I love you.