George Murray Quotes

A sequence works in a way a collection never can.
George Murray

Works, Collection, Sequence

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 deal, or part of a natural progression from poetry to fiction, but often it's really just about the money, the perceived prestige.
George Murray

Success, Money, Poetry

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 of the reader too.
George Murray

Respect, Poetry, Keep

I am certainly suffering from a modicum of performance anxiety.
George Murray

Suffering, Anxiety, Modicum

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 a year or so... that's about it.
George Murray

Long, May, Start

I do try to let what is obviously unintended yet naturally good stay in.
George Murray

Good, Try, Stay

I don't think there's anything wrong with someone having to read a poem twice. Or even a book.
George Murray

Someone, Book, Wrong

I feel as though I've fooled the world into thinking I'm an adult and now they're letting me procreate.
George Murray

Thinking, Though, Adult

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 different from the last.
George Murray

Change, Different, Last

I no longer feel pressure to produce fiction.
George Murray

Pressure, Longer, Fiction

I still write the occasional short story, and poked at a novel once, but it's just not what I want to do.
George Murray

Short, Write, Once

I suppress the vast majority of what I write.
George Murray

Write, Majority, Suppress

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 think amid all the noise and visual pollution.
George Murray

Find, Living, Around

I think, for me, humour needs to be used like a strong spice - sparingly.
George Murray

Strong, Used, Needs

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 like storytelling.
George Murray

Today, Rock, Tomorrow

I was writing notes, but not composing poems. The Hunter began to develop out of this fragmented process.
George Murray

Writing, Process, Develop

I'm not interested in being easy anymore. Readable, yes. Easy, no.
George Murray

Easy, Interested, Yes

I've often entertained paranoid suspicions about my fridge and what it's been doing to my poetry when I'm not looking, but I never even considered that my fan was thinking about me.
George Murray

Poetry, Thinking, Often

In fact, in some ways, I actually feel much more confident about the quality of Carousel than I do about The Cottage Builder's Letter: probably because of its cohesive nature.
George Murray

Nature, Fact, Actually

In my opinion, Al Moritz may be the best poet of his generation in Canada.
George Murray

Best, May, Opinion

It's a bit of a crapshoot out there with young writers right now anyway.
George Murray

Young, Bit, Writers

My self-editing process is intense.
George Murray

Process, Intense

New York was breaking my concentration and disintegrating my thoughts.
George Murray

Thoughts, York, Breaking

The poetry community here has been extraordinarily welcoming.
George Murray

Poetry, Here, Community

The whole competition thing disturbs me. Not that I wasn't a part of it when I first started.
George Murray

Whole, Started, Disturbs

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Type: Poet

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