But you'd have a job to find many of my poems which would seem to be very influenced by a particular person.
I just didn't want to shoot other people.
And it's impossible for me to read Henry James.
And in a way, that's been a help to me, because I take great passions for a particular poet - sometimes it lasts for many years, sometimes only for a while. This happens to everybody.
I used to have a great love for Dostoyevsky and Tolstoy, the big boys of the last century.
Anybody who writes doesn't like to be misunderstood.
All I write about is what's happened to me and to people I know, and the better I know them, the more likely they are to be written about.
People haven't got the interest in long long works these days. A lack of interest which I share.
I don't base any character on a real person, and really don't do composites either. I make them up.
I decided to write category romance as I'd recently discovered them, and enjoyed them.
I don't believe for one moment you can write well what you wouldn't read for pleasure.
Ive gotten to know a number of readers from being online, and really treasure the time Ive spent with them.
I long for typical days, but rarely get them any more.
Never mind, dear, we're all made the same, though some more than others.
The literature is like that - they [unions] are constantly talking about the masses, the danger they pose, and how to control them. They understand what they're doing, and they're very class conscious. They press policies which work for their interests.
All you have to do is read the business literature. In the 1930s they were very frightened and they were concerned about how the rising power of the masses was hazardous to industrialists.
Well, when you have an opportunity to build a show around one of the greatest detectives in all of literature, you're going to jump at that opportunity.
Doesn't the theory of relativity concern literature too? In our world there is no longer any room for the privileged observer, as there is none for the observer of the universe - we are all within.
The Russian yearning for the meaning of life is the major theme of our literature, and this is the real point of our intelligentsia's existence.
And, in a funny way, each death is different and you mourn each death differently and each death brings back the death you mourned earlier and you get into a bit of a pile-up.
I'm not someone who's endlessly patient and wonderful.
The unique thing that literature provides is to be able to step so fully into another situation and condition.
God bless my father, but he always spoke in this continental, literary accent, probably because he was a professor of comparative literature and he made the decision to speak with distinction.
I think New York is working its way into my poems. It takes a while for a place to filter its way onto the page, but I've been reading more and more American poetry and I certainly feel it as quite a freeing force. Coming from the formally ordered tradition of poetry in Ireland, I find the expansiveness of American literature freeing in some sense.
None of my characters are rich or famous, and the situations they find themselves in could happen to anyone.
