"I am interested in the confines of the page and busting through/off the page as well. A writer must let go of the line when writing prose poems, which brings its own pleasures."

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Source : Source: therumpus.net

Denise Duhamel

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“When I was five, I always told my mom I would want to be an actor.”
“I don'tsell cars; I sell engines. The cars I throw in for free since something has tohold the engines in.”
“Holding hands at midnight 'Neath a starry sky... Nice work if you can get it And you can get it -- if you try.”

Source : "NiceWork If You Can Get It" (song) (1937)
“I was born and bred a Catholic. I was brought up a very strong Catholic - I practiced in a seminary for four years, from eleven to fourteen, and trained to be a Catholic priest. So I was very steeped in all that.”
“I know in my situation, my mind works more than everything else. I've been like that my whole career.”
“For hours, for days, for years, she had wandered endlessly within herself but never met anybody, nobody.”
“Until I was 16, I read nothing but science fiction. I loved William Gibson and I still do. But my favourite book when I was growing up, for a long time, was 'Snow Crash' by Neal Stephenson, which I must have read about a dozen times when I was a teenager.”

Source : "Ned Beauman: 'What sticks in my mind is praise from the wrong people'". Interview with Gemma Kappala-Ramsamy, www.theguardian.com. July 21, 2012.
“Other people - they practice and they practice... these fingers of mine, they got brains in 'em. You don't tell them what to do - they do it. God given talent.”

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