George Murray Quotes
"I was writing notes, but not composing poems. The Hunter began to develop out of this fragmented process."
- George Murray
(Related: Poems, Writing)
"I'm not interested in being easy anymore. Readable, yes. Easy, no."
- George Murray
(Related: Being)
"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
(Related: Poetry, Thinking)
"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
(Related: Nature, Quality, Fact)
"In my opinion, Al Moritz may be the best poet of his generation in Canada."
- George Murray
(Related: Canada, May, Opinion)
"My self-editing process is intense."
- George Murray
(Related: Self)
"The poetry community here has been extraordinarily welcoming."
- George Murray
(Related: Poetry, Community)
"The whole competition thing disturbs me. Not that I wasn't a part of it when I first started."
- George Murray
(Related: Competition, First)
"Well, we all start thinking we're going to be Romantic rock stars, but then reality hits and you realize no one reads you but other poets."
- George Murray
(Related: Poets, Reality, Romantic, Stars, Thinking)
"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
(Related: Myth, Prophecy, Today, Tomorrow, Yesterday)
"It's a bit of a crapshoot out there with young writers right now anyway."
- George Murray
(Related: Now, Right, Writers)
"Then I discovered I loved writing poetry more than fiction."
- George Murray
(Related: Poetry, Fiction, Writing)
"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
(Related: May)
"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
(Related: Money, Poetry, Success, People, Books, Fiction, Writing)
"I think, for me, humour needs to be used like a strong spice - sparingly."
- George Murray
(Related: Needs)
"I am certainly suffering from a modicum of performance anxiety."
- George Murray
(Related: Performance, Anxiety, Suffering)
"I do try to let what is obviously unintended yet naturally good stay in."
- George Murray
"New York was breaking my concentration and disintegrating my thoughts."
- George Murray
(Related: Thoughts)
"I don't think there's anything wrong with someone having to read a poem twice. Or even a book."
- George Murray
(Related: 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
(Related: Now, Thinking, World)
"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
(Related: Change, Books)
"I no longer feel pressure to produce fiction."
- George Murray
(Related: Fiction, Pressure)
"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
(Related: Poetry, Fiction, Respect)
"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
(Related: Want)
"I suppress the vast majority of what I write."
- George Murray
(Related: Majority)
"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
(Related: Influence, Living, Pollution)
"A sequence works in a way a collection never can."
- George Murray