40 Quotes by Jon McGregor

She wonders if you can feel nostalgic for something before it’s in the past, she wonders if perhaps her vocabulary is too small or if her chemical intake has corroded it and the music goes doowoah doowoah.

I say too much of what, he says too much of everything, too much stuff, too many places, too much information, too many people, too much of things for there to be too much of, there is too much to know and I don’t know where to begin but I want to try.

I once saw a picture in the paper of John Hegley with ‘poet’ written on his knuckles, and I thought that was pretty cool, so I was quite up front about it.

But there are people too he says, everywhere there are people and I think it is easier to hold hands with people than it is with angels, yes?

Now that I’ve had a book published, it is quite validating, but a bit embarrassing.

I’m surprised, but I’m glad, I realise that this is what i wanted that night last week, to simply make a connection and keep hold of it.

Every step of the road was just as she’d dreamt it all the time she’d been away. Every step took her further away from the smoke and the noise and the loneliness and fear of the city she’d left behind. Every step drew her deeper into the hollows of the landscape, the green hills and shining rivers and mist-tangled treetops.

The world didn’t always sound right when it was first explained.

It makes me feel primitive, rooted, connected to the dirt of the earth and the light of the stars, a spun thread pulled across the span of generations.