193 Quotes by Raymond Carver

You've got to work with your mistakes until they look intended. Understand?

Write what you know, and what do you know better than your own secrets?

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

A man without hands came to the door to sell me a photograph of my house. Except for the chrome hooks, he was an ordinary-looking man of fifty or so.

The past is unclear. It's as if there is a film over those early years. I can't even be sure that the things I remember happening really happened to me.

She won't give him back his look.

She's meeting herself coming and going.

Il vuoto è l'inizio di tutte le cose.

There is in the soul a desire for not thinking.For being still. Coupled with thisa desire to be strict, yes, and rigorous.But the soul is also a smooth son of a bitch,not always trustworthy. And I forgot that.