There is no answer. It's okay. But even if it wasn't okay, what am I supposed to do? Raymond Carver More Quotes by Raymond Carver More Quotes From Raymond Carver For a long time I wanted to do the kind of work my dad did. He was going to ask his foreman at the mill to put me on after I graduated. So I worked at the mill for about six months. But I hated the work and knew from the first day I didn't want to do that for the rest of my life. Raymond Carver day me work life When I'm writing, I write every day. It's lovely when that's happening. One day dovetailing into the next. Sometimes I don't even know what day of the week it is. Raymond Carver every-day day writing sometimes 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 down you poetry writing 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 feel women men 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 game respect real life
