Raymond Carver Quotes About Heart

Quotes about: Heart

• I could hear my heart beating. I could hear everyone's heart. I could hear the human noise we sat there making, not one of us moving, not even when the room went dark.

  Raymond Carver

  Love, Moving, Heart

  Raymond Carver (2015). “Where I'm Calling From: Selected Stories”, p.169, Vintage

• If we're lucky, writer and reader alike, we'll finish the last line or two of a short story and then just sit for a minute, quietly. Ideally, we'll ponder what we've just written or read; maybe our hearts or intellects will have been moved off the peg just a little from where they were before. Our body temperature will have gone up, or down, by a degree. Then, breathing evenly and steadily once more, we'll collect ourselves, writers and readers alike, get up, "created of warm blood and nerves" as a Chekhov character puts it, and go on to the next thing: Life. Always life.

  Raymond Carver

  Writing, Heart, Character

  Raymond Carver (2016). “Where I'm Calling From”, p.14, Random House

• My heart is broken,” she goes. “It’s turned to a piece of stone. I’m no good. That’s what’s as bad as anything, that I’m no good anymore.

  Raymond Carver

  Heart, Broken, Pieces

  Raymond Carver (2015). “Where I'm Calling From: Selected Stories”, p.131, Vintage

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