Some writers have a bunch of talent; I don’t know any writers who are without it. But a unique and exact way of looking at things, and finding the right context for expressing that way of looking, that’s something else. . . . Every great, or even every very good writer, makes the world over according to his own specifications.
— Raymond Carver
(May 25, 1938 – August 2, 1988)
Raymond Clevie Carver Jr. was an American short story writer and poet. He is considered to be amongst America's greatest writers. Wikipedia
