I write about life as it exists within houses and on the streets. And there's nothing, hopefully, in any of my characterizations or in any of my plottings or in any of my valuations that doesn't ring true to life.… — Richard Grossman Copy Share Image
I have a strong spiritual commitment, and I try to express that in my work. Salvation cannot be worked out in human terms. The… — Richard Grossman Copy Share
The problem with American democracy is the American corporation, which is a slave holder construct, pure and simple. It's totally invasive, and people are… — Richard Grossman Copy Share
When you're reading my book, you're not in a four dimensional continuum, you're in my continuum, the Grossman continuum. — Richard Grossman Copy Share
I write about life as it exists within houses and on the streets. And there's nothing, hopefully, in any of my characterizations or in… — Richard Grossman Copy Share
I've been in the art world for many years. But the sad fact is that most writers are visually prepubescent. Generally speaking, the literary… — Richard Grossman Copy Share
I love grand scale. One of the things that everybody mentions is that my novels are beautiful objects in the sense that the elements… — Richard Grossman Copy Share
I'm truly an outsider in the poetry world. When I started writing, I was trying to move my poems away from modernist lines. — Richard Grossman Copy Share
My books are not about different components that fit together like pieces in a jigsaw puzzle, it's about creating the space around the components,… — Richard Grossman Copy Share
I'm a staunch civil libertarian; I really believe that the individual is more important than any societal value. — Richard Grossman Copy Share
I think of myself as a jazz player, and my music as a natural extension of the jazz tradition. What I'm doing is completely… — Richard Grossman Copy Share
I think that life is incredibly violent and that individual people are incredibly violent on one level or another. I don't try to change… — Richard Grossman Copy Share
Salvation is an individual relationship with God. I've always considered myself to be a devotional poet, and I consider myself to be a devotional… — Richard Grossman Copy Share
If there is anything unique about my writing it is the way that I combine poetry and prose, not just on the level of… — Richard Grossman Copy Share
I don't think that brutality and idealism are mutually exclusive. It's a common denominator in my work - rabid idealism. — Richard Grossman Copy Share
I'm a centrist. There is a lot going on socially that I don't like, but I feel that in a democracy you work from… — Richard Grossman Copy Share
