15 Quotes by Raymond Carver about Writing
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I think a little menace is fine to have in a story. For one thing, it's good for the circulation.
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Every great or even every very good writer makes the world over according to his own specifications.
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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.
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There are significant moments in everyone's day that can make literature. That's what you ought to write about.
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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.
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Write about what you know, and what do you know better than your own secrets?
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