Lee

“Every great or even every very good writer makes the world over according to his own specifications.”
― Raymond Carver

“It's possible, in a poem or short story, to write about commonplace things and objects using commonplace but precise language, and to endow those things—a chair, a window curtain, a fork, a stone, a woman's earring—with immense, even startling power.”
― Raymond Carver

“You're a beautiful drunk, daughter.
But you're a drunk.”
― Raymond Carver

“That's all we have, finally, the words, and they had better be the right ones.”
― Raymond Carver