British - Publisher | May 27, 1947 - June 22, 2014
I have an over-attachment to precision, which is why I've sold more magazines than any man alive.
Felix Dennis
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No poetry that I'm aware of, however bad or glorious, has ever left somebody a worse person than they were before they read it.
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I cannot abide being bored.
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I write about whatever turns up. Every single day, I'm sitting down for three to five hours in the evenings wrestling away and producing far too much verse.
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With a poetry book I can send 100 copies out to reviewers and other people, and even do it in advance and get their response. It's difficult with iPad: how do you send it out for free, and how do you even disseminate it before it goes into their store?
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I'm an entrepreneur, a businessman. I've got a lot of money, and that doesn't go very well with the whole 'starving artist in a garret' routine.
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The reason I don't carry a mobile phone is I don't want people to know where I am!
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People think I'm just an old Luddite, but that's untrue. I buy every new gizmo as it comes out, play with it until I understand how it works, and then give it away.
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For me, temptation is life and I have a gargantuan appetite for everything.
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I loathe and detest movies and television and don't watch any. I do not have the time.
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When I was young, I wanted to be the greatest blues singer of all time. I wrecked my education and left home for it.
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The best thing about being immensely wealthy is not having to be in any particular place at any particular time doing a particular task you don't want to do.
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