Raymond Carver Quotes

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

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: writer
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: May 25, 1938 - August 2, 1988

Topics

PoetryWritingAdviceDoingYou

I believe in possibility, but I'm not sure I believe in demons.

Jennifer Carpenter

BelieveDemonsI BelieveI Believe In

In a song, you have to have a lyric that gives us new ideas on how to live, a lyric that makes us feel, and a melody that gives you some kind of body response and emotional response.

Jennifer Warnes

LiveIdeasSongFeelYouBody

The New Testament doesn't present Jesus as a single man to cover up his humanity. It presents him as a single man because... he was a single man.

John Ortberg

ManPresentHumanityNewHimSingle

Eviction is much more an inevitability than a result of irresponsibility.

Matthew Desmond

ResultMoreThanMuchInevitability

If the quality and quantity of continuous effort toward goals matters as much as I think it does, we may actually get more productive, not less, as we get older - even if we can't pull all-nighters like we used to.

Angela Duckworth

GoalsQualityEffortThinkMatters

There is no heaven or afterlife for broken-down computers; that is a fairy story for people afraid of the dark.

Stephen Hawking

PeopleComputersStoryDarkHeaven

Freddie Gray was a story I followed closer than others, for whatever reason, in this larger narrative of police brutality.

Stephen Malkmus

PoliceStoryOthersGrayReason

I think it's almost easier to make people cry than to make people laugh.

Sophie Marceau

PeopleThinkLaughCryAlmostThan

Even though I don't feel I need approval, it's still important to me to give a good performance. I'm hard on myself.

Michelle Pfeiffer

GoodMyselfMePerformanceFeel

Obviously, you have to find the confidence within yourself to pursue your ideas, but there's nothing wrong with having people around you who are going to say, 'I think that's a great idea,' or, 'I think you're doing the right thing.'

Joy Mangano

ConfidenceGreatYourselfIdeasYou

I don't remember the first time I won. I remember the first time I lost, and it sucked. It was go-karts; I was, like, 6 years old.

Juan Pablo Montoya

TimeRememberLostFirst TimeFirst

I would never be comfortable with an edited name. I have never hidden the fact that I am of Indian origin.

Jay Chandrasekhar

I AmNameComfortableHiddenNever

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