32 Quotes by George Murray

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.

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

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

With 'Carousel' I had an idea and it all came out quickly.

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.

A sequence works in a way a collection never can.

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

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.

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.