32 Quotes by George Murray

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    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.

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

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

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

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    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.

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    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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    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.

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    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.

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