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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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"It's very homely, this castle. It doesn't have huge ballrooms. I didn't want a cold, cavernous place."
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"What you want, when you want it. As opposed to everything you could ever want, even when you don't."
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"You want the audience to be uncomfortable."
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"It's hard to say what I want my legacy to be when I'm long gone."
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"If you want something done, ask a busy person to do it. The more things you do, the more you can do."
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"One-half of knowing what you want is knowing what you must give up before you get it."
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"I feel that if I said anything about John, I would have to sit here for five days and say it all. Or I don't want to say anything."
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"With yourself, I think you have to decide the kind of person that you really want to be, and for me, it's just a sweet girl."
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"I want to do for rebounds what Michael Jordan did for dunks."
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"I learned that if you want to make it bad enough, no matter how bad it is, you can make it."
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"Well, we all start thinking we're going to be Romantic rock stars, but then reality hits and you realize no one reads you but other poets."
Poet
"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."
Poetry
"In my opinion, Al Moritz may be the best poet of his generation in Canada."
Poetry
"I am certainly suffering from a modicum of performance anxiety."
Performance
"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."
Change
"I no longer feel pressure to produce fiction."
Fiction
"In fact, in some ways, I actually feel much more confident about the quality of Carousel than I do about The Cottage Builder's Letter: probably because of its cohesive nature."
Nature
"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."
Writing
"With 'Carousel' I had an idea and it all came out quickly."
Creativity
"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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