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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."

Influence, Living, Pollution

"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, Fiction, Respect

"I no longer feel pressure to produce fiction."

Fiction, Pressure

"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, Books

"I feel as though I've fooled the world into thinking I'm an adult and now they're letting me procreate."

Now, Thinking, World

"I don't think there's anything wrong with someone having to read a poem twice. Or even a book."

Wrong,

"I am certainly suffering from a modicum of performance anxiety."

Performance, Anxiety, Suffering

"I think, for me, humour needs to be used like a strong spice - sparingly."

Needs,

"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."

Money, Poetry, Success, People

"Then I discovered I loved writing poetry more than fiction."

Poetry, Fiction, Writing

Exlpore more Thought quotes

"It is a rare mind indeed that can render the hitherto non-existent blindingly obvious. The cry 'I could have thought of that' is a very popular and misleading one, for the fact is that they didn't, and a very significant and revealing fact it is too."

Douglas Adams, English Writer

Thought, Fact, Mind, Misleading

"The mere thought hadn't even begun to speculate about the merest possibility of crossing my mind."

Douglas Adams, English Writer

Thought, Possibility, Mind

"No one means all he says, and yet very few say all they mean, for words are slippery and thought is viscous."

Henry Adams, American Historian

Thought, Words

"No man means all he says, and yet very few say all they mean, for words are slippery and thought is viscous."

Henry B. Adams, American Historian

Thought, Man, Words

"The freedom of thought is a sacred right of every individual man, and diversity will continue to increase with the progress, refinement, and differentiation of the human intellect."

Felix Adler, German Educator

Thought, Progress, Diversity, Freedom

"Once the last trace of emotion has been eradicated, nothing remains of thought but absolute tautology."

Theodor Adorno, German Philosopher

Thought, Emotion, Nothing

"Dialectic thought is an attempt to break through the coercion of logic by its own means."

Theodor Adorno, German Philosopher

Thought, Logic

"True thoughts are those alone which do not understand themselves."

Theodor Adorno, German Philosopher

Thought, Thoughts

"Because thought has by now been perverted into the solving of assigned problems, even what is not assigned is processed like a problem."

Theodor Adorno, German Philosopher

Thought, Now, Problems

"It is the part of a fool to say, I should not have thought."

Scipio Africanus, Roman Soldier

Thought, Fool