A biography for George Murrayhasn’t been written yet.
“I still write the occasional short story, and poked at a novel once, but it's just not what I want to do.”
“It's a bit of a crapshoot out there with young writers right now anyway.”
“I am still interested in the long or serial poem, but have written a few smaller things. I may start sending to journals again in a year or so... that's about it.”
“In my opinion, Al Moritz may be the best poet of his generation in Canada.”
“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 think, for me, humour needs to be used like a strong spice - sparingly.”
“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.”
“I don't think there's anything wrong with someone having to read a poem twice. Or even a book.”
“I do try to let what is obviously unintended yet naturally good stay in.”
“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.”
“I was writing notes, but not composing poems. The Hunter began to develop out of this fragmented process.”
“My self-editing process is intense.”
“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.”
“I suppress the vast majority of what I write.”
“The whole competition thing disturbs me. Not that I wasn't a part of it when I first started.”
“The poetry community here has been extraordinarily welcoming.”
“With 'Carousel' I had an idea and it all came out quickly.”
“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.”
“I feel as though I've fooled the world into thinking I'm an adult and now they're letting me procreate.”