Carver Quotes

We're doing Circle of Snakes, we open up with Skin Carver and we are throwing in Skull Forest later on.

Raymond Carver is good. I think he'll be appreciated more and more. He's an easy writer to imitate.

I believe the right question to ask, respecting all ornament, is simply this; was it done with enjoyment, was the carver happy while he was about it?

I wanted to make comics that get at feelings that connect to the deepest moments of our lives, reading Tolstoy, Flaubert, Flannery O'Connor, Herman Melville, William Faulkner, Vladimir Nabokov and Carver to help gain the confidence to figure it out. I knew, however, the most doomed approach would be to simply create stories that felt 'literary.'

It's not a terribly original thing to say, but I love Raymond Carver. For one thing, he's fun to read out loud.