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I no longer feel pressure to produce fiction.
George Murray
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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 suppress the vast majority of what I write.
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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.
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I think, for me, humour needs to be used like a strong spice - sparingly.
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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.
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I'm not interested in being easy anymore. Readable, yes. Easy, no.
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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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In my opinion, Al Moritz may be the best poet of his generation in Canada.
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It's a bit of a crapshoot out there with young writers right now anyway.
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My self-editing process is intense.
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New York was breaking my concentration and disintegrating my thoughts.
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