{"author":"Raymond Carver","author_id":"Raymond+Carver","total_quotes":37,"quotes":[{"text":"That's all we have, finally, the words, and they had better be the right ones.","author":"Raymond Carver","tags":["writing"],"id":7761,"author_id":"Raymond+Carver"},{"text":"I'm moving to Nevada. Either there or kill myself.","author":"Raymond Carver","tags":["gazebo","suicide"],"id":32226,"author_id":"Raymond+Carver"},{"text":"Then I said something. I said, Suppose, just suppose, nothing had ever happened. Suppose this was for the first time. Just suppose. It doesn't hurt to suppose. Say none of the other had ever happened. You know what I mean? Then what? I said.","author":"Raymond Carver","tags":["know","life","suppose"],"id":49284,"author_id":"Raymond+Carver"},{"text":"My circumstances of unrelieved responsibility and permanent distraction necessitated the short story form.","author":"Raymond Carver","tags":["inspiration","work","work-ethic","writing"],"id":56264,"author_id":"Raymond+Carver"},{"text":"I'm always learning something. Learning never ends.","author":"Raymond Carver","tags":["learning"],"id":79983,"author_id":"Raymond+Carver"},{"text":"You see, this happened a few months ago, but it's still going on right now, and it ought to make us feel ashamed when we talk like we know what we're talking about when we talk about love.","author":"Raymond Carver","tags":["love","shame","talk","time"],"id":80983,"author_id":"Raymond+Carver"},{"text":"Nights without beginning that had no end. Talking about a past as if it'd really happened. Telling themselves that this time next year, this time next year, things were going to be different.","author":"Raymond Carver","tags":["change","life","life-changing","past"],"id":96325,"author_id":"Raymond+Carver"},{"text":"It's possible, in a poem or a 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. It is possible to write a line of seemingly innocuous dialogue and have it send a chill along the reader's spine-- the source of artistic delight, as Nabokov would have it. That's the kind of writing that most interests me.","author":"Raymond Carver","tags":["1983","commonplace","on-writing","writing"],"id":117952,"author_id":"Raymond+Carver"},{"text":"It ought to make us feel ashamed when we talk like we know what we're talking about when we talk about love.","author":"Raymond Carver","tags":["love"],"id":134131,"author_id":"Raymond+Carver"},{"text":"Happiness. It comes onunexpectedly. And goes beyond, really,any early morning talk about it.","author":"Raymond Carver","tags":["happiness","poetry"],"id":134177,"author_id":"Raymond+Carver"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":37,"pages":4,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}