He wondered if she wondered if he were watching her. Raymond Carver More Quotes by Raymond Carver More Quotes From Raymond Carver There was this funny thing of anything could happen now that we realized everything had. Raymond Carver funny-things happens Fiction shows the external effects of internal conditions. Be aware of the tension between internal and external movement. Raymond Carver crafts movement fiction In short, everything about his life was different for him at the bottom of that well. Raymond Carver bottom wells different That morning she pours Teacher's over my belly and licks it off. That afternoon she tries to jump out the window. Raymond Carver morning trying teacher and did you get what you wanted from this life even so? i did. Raymond Carver this-life wanted Then I said something. I said, Suppose, just suppose, nothing had ever happened. Suppose this was for the first time. Just suppose. It doesn't hurt to suppose. Say none of the other had ever happened. You know what I mean? Then what? I said. Raymond Carver hurt mean firsts A man can go along obeying all the rules and then it don't matter a damn anymore. Raymond Carver damn matter men I’d like to go out in the front yard and shout something. “None of this is worth it!” That’s what I’d like people to hear. Raymond Carver yards fronts people Don’t complain, don’t explain. Raymond Carver complaining My circumstances of unrelieved responsibility and permanent distraction necessitated the short story form. Raymond Carver responsibility stories writing Woke up this morning with a terrific urge to lie in bed all day and read. Fought against it for a minute. Then looked out the window at the rain. And gave over. Put myself entirely in the keep of this rainy morning. Would I live my life over again? Make the same unforgivable mistakes? Yes, given half a chance. Yes. Raymond Carver mistake morning lying Remember Haydn's 104 symphonies. Not all of them were great. But there were 104 of them. Raymond Carver symphony remember A little autobiography and a lot of imagination are best. Raymond Carver imagination writing littles My life is going to change. I feel it. Raymond Carver life-is feels I'm always learning something. Learning never ends. Raymond Carver always-learning ends What do any of us really know about love? Raymond Carver knows I've done as many as 20 or 30 drafts of a story. Never less than 10 or 12 drafts. Raymond Carver done stories That was in Crescent City, California, up near the Oregon border. I left soon after. But today I was thinking of that place, of Crescent City, and of how I was trying out a new life there with my wife, and how, in the barber's chair that morning, I had made up my mind to go. I was thinking today about the calm I felt when I closed my eyes and let the barber's fingers move through my hair, the sweetness of those fingers, the hair already starting to grow. Raymond Carver eye morning moving The fiction Im most interested in has lines of reference to the real world. Raymond Carver real fiction world Get in, get out. Don't linger. Go on. Raymond Carver goes-on
