32 Quotes by George Murray

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.

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.

I no longer feel pressure to produce fiction.

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

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

The poetry community here has been extraordinarily welcoming.

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

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.

I am certainly suffering from a modicum of performance anxiety.