George Murray Quotes

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• A sequence works in a way a collection never can.
• I am certainly suffering from a modicum of performance anxiety.
• I do try to let what is obviously unintended yet naturally good stay in.
• I guess there is also an element of deliberate change involved. Each of my books has been, at least from my point of view, radically…
• I no longer feel pressure to produce fiction.
• I suppress the vast majority of what I write.
• I think the main influence has been living in New York City. Aside from all the crap around 9/11, I find it very demanding to…
• I think, for me, humour needs to be used like a strong spice - sparingly.
• I wanted to rock back and forth between myth and distant futures, yesterday, today, and tomorrow. It felt a bit like prophecy and a bit…
• I was writing notes, but not composing poems. The Hunter began to develop out of this fragmented process.
• In my opinion, Al Moritz may be the best poet of his generation in Canada.
• My self-editing process is intense.
• New York was breaking my concentration and disintegrating my thoughts.
• The poetry community here has been extraordinarily welcoming.
• Then I discovered I loved writing poetry more than fiction.
• Even the people who have had success and made money writing these books of fiction seem to feel the need to pretend it's no big…
• Humour is a fine line to walk in poetry, as in fiction. I just think it's harder to write. It's harder to keep the respect…
• I am still interested in the long or serial poem, but have written a few smaller things. I may start sending to journals again in…
• I don't think there's anything wrong with someone having to read a poem twice. Or even a book.
• I feel as though I've fooled the world into thinking I'm an adult and now they're letting me procreate.

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