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- Nov 07, 2020
Carver Quotes
Reflections on craft, heritage, and legacy
This collection of carver quotes honors literary craft and lasting heritage. For related history, see our Black History quotes.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
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- Nov 07, 2020
My dad read, I think, the Perry Mason mysteries and Zane Grey and some humor compendiums... And then at one point, the bookmobile started coming to town. That was really cool. I mean, that was when I read my first Raymond Carver story. I think that was probably 1969 or so. I must have been 13.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I am really into how words sound out loud, so I was always the kid who would, like, read the page of the book to herself in her room over and over and over. And Raymond Carver is great for that. Tobias Wolff is an author who is really good for that as well.
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- Nov 07, 2020
In our community here in Boston, we have had a tremendous influx of Russian Jews and Haitians. We call these people immigrants. But they come for the same reasons that William Bradford and William Brewster and John Carver came.
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- Nov 07, 2020
The problem with relegating black history to one really short month, the shortest month, is not only are we telling the same stories over and over again - which are amazing, George Washington Carver is incredible, there's nobody like Frederick Douglass - but there are so many.
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- Nov 07, 2020
We're doing Circle of Snakes, we open up with Skin Carver and we are throwing in Skull Forest later on.
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- Nov 07, 2020