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Raymond Carver Quotes
Raymond Carver Quotes
Raymond Carver
American
Writer
Born:
May 25
,
1938
Died:
Aug 2
,
1988
Day
Fiction
Life
Time
World
Writing
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I think marriage is one of those things that writers draw on, one of those emotional reservoirs that go way back.
Raymond Carver
Marriage
Think
Back
Way
Draw
Those
Emotional
Writers
Go
Things
When you're writing fiction or poetry... it really comes down to this: indifference to everything except what you're doing... A young writer could do worse than follow the advice given in those lines.
Raymond Carver
You
Writing
Advice
Young
Down
Everything
Worse
Those
Follow
Indifference
Given
Poetry
Except
Could
Writer
Doing
Lines
Than
Fiction
Really
In the beginning, when I was trying to write, I couldn't turn off the outside world to the extent that I can now.
Raymond Carver
World
Beginning
Write
Outside
Outside World
Off
Trying
In The Beginning
Turn
Turn-Off
Now
Extent
It's something that I feel I know about, relationships between men and women. I like to write from the woman's point of view now and again, to get inside her head, to feel what she's feeling.
Raymond Carver
Woman
Women
Men
Men And Women
Feeling
Relationships
Inside
About
Something
Point
Point Of View
Write
Head
Feel
Between
Like
Know
She
Get
Again
View
Now
Her
I guess my writing has changed as my life has.
Raymond Carver
Life
Writing
My Life
Changed
Guess
Most of my stories, if not all of them, have some basis in real life. That's the kind of fiction I'm most interested in. I suppose that's one reason I don't have much respect for fiction that seems to be game playing.
Raymond Carver
Life
Game
Respect
Real Life
Kind
Some
Seems
Suppose
Most
Real
Fiction
Stories
Interested
Them
Much
Reason
Playing
Basis
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