Raymond Carver Quotes

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 autobiography and a lot of imagination are best.

Raymond Carver

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

GreatBestImaginationTemptation

I'm always an advocate of 'acting is reacting,' which can be difficult.

Maxine Peake

ActingDifficultAlwaysAdvocate

I love the idea that we're going to be genderless and boundaryless in the future.

Amy Landecker

LoveFutureGoingIdeaI Love

Imagination is a funny thing - we sometimes need to see something before we can truly picture it.

Tomi Adeyemi

FunnyImaginationPictureSometimes

To me, 'Blackberry Way' stands up as a song that could be sung in any era, really. We do it with the new doing all sort of fanfare things in it and it works really well. It goes down great with audiences.

Roy Wood

GreatMeSongDoingDownNew

I long for my garden to be complete. Working in it is one of my joys, but it will never be finished because it's forever changing with the seasons.

Mary Quant

SeasonsLongGardenWillNever

I believe greatness is an evolutionary process that changes and evolves era to era.

Michael Jordan

GreatnessBelieveProcessI Believe

The only thing that I stress out about is, how am I going to make sure that I balance out my time for motherhood?

Christina Milian

TimeStressBalanceMotherhoodOut

Creativity is the greatest expression of liberty.

Bryant H. McGill

CreativityLibertyExpression

To be really honest, I don't love the gym.

Anna Torv

LoveGymHonestReally

The problem of a rising population destroying more than four tons of soil for every human already alive needs to find its way into corporate board rooms if we are to enjoy future financial, economic and political stability.

Allan Savory

FutureFinancialPoliticalProblem

Cast aside any column about two subjects. It means the pundit chickened out on the hard decision about what to write about that day.

William Safire

DecisionDayWriteHardTwoOut

I'm the kind of person who does not remember bad things.

Tim Robbins

RememberBadPersonKindThingsWho

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