I think not in two or three dimensional terms but in five dimensional terms when I consider a novel. There's height, width, and depth, there's the time factor, and then there's the factor which I call the cerebral factor of… — 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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
I'm a staunch civil libertarian; I really believe that the individual is more important than any societal value. — Richard Grossman Copy Share Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
