Raymond Clevie Carver, Jr. (May 25, 1938 – August 2, 1988) was an American short story writer and poet. Carver contributed to the revitalization of the American short story in literature during the 1980s. Read full biography of Raymond Carver →
Life and death matters, yes. And the question of how to behave in this world, how to go in the face of everything. Time is short and the water is... →
When you're writing fiction or poetry... it really comes down to this: indifference to everything except what you're doing... A young writer... →
I guess my writing has changed as my life has.
The fiction I'm most interested in has lines of reference to the real world.
A great danger, or at least a great temptation, for many writers is to become too autobiographical in their approach to their fiction. A little... →
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... →
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... →
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... →
In the beginning, when I was trying to write, I couldn't turn off the outside world to the extent that I can now.
When I'm fishing, I feel guilty that I'm not writing, and when I'm writing, I feel guilty that I'm not fishing. But when push comes... →
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... →
I think marriage is one of those things that writers draw on, one of those emotional reservoirs that go way back.
Raymond Clevie Carver, Jr. (May 25, 1938 – August 2, 1988) was an American short story writer and poet. Carver contributed to the revitalization of the American short story in literature during the 1980s.