“ –I was living my life in an unbecoming
way. I thought I could change my life, that I’d have to change my life after I
put the book down. But it was impossible – impossible to go out and become a
different man, or live a different life. I think literature can make us aware
of some of our lacks, some things in our lives that diminish us, and it can
make us realize what it takes to be human, to be something larger than we
really are, something better. I think literature can make us realize that our
lives are not being lived to the fullest possible extent. But whether
literature can actually change our lives I don’t know. I really don’t know. “
- Raymond Carver
