You're...writing for other writers to an extent-the dead writers whose work you admire, as well as the living writers you like to read.
Raymond CarverBut he stays by the window, remembering that life. They had laughed. They had leaned on each other and laughed until the tears had come, while everything elseโthe cold and where he'd go in itโwas outside, for a while anyway.
Raymond CarverMel thought real love was nothing less than spiritual love. He'd said he'd spent five years in a seminary before quitting to go to medical school. He said he still looked back on those years in the seminary as the most important years of his life.
Raymond Carver