"Many other cultures value poetry more than we do. In Ireland, poetry is a top cultural pursuit, the art to end all arts."

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Source : "Campbell McGrath on Poetry, Walt Whitman and Schaefer Beer". Interview with Jeffrey A. Trachtenberg, www.wsj.com. March 1, 2008.

Campbell McGrath

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“So if I think of something in my head I don't have to do it. If I can't do I don't do it, I do something else.”
“The thing about all my food is that everything is a remembered flavor. Maybe it's something I had as a child or maybe it's something I had in Milan, but I want it to taste better than you ever thought.”
“The mind of a writer can be a truly terrifying thing. Isolated, neurotic, caffeine-addled, crippled by procrastination, consumed by feelings of panic, self-loathing, and soul-crushing inadequacy. And thatâ€™s on a good day.”

Source : "Girls and OCD" by Tara Fass and Lisa Jonsson, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 12, 2014.
“Human beings love stories because they safely show us beginnings, middles and ends.”

Source : "A comforting way of death" by A. S. Byatt, www.theguardian.com. November 8, 2002.
“Almost all great writers have as their motif, more or less disguised, the passage from childhood to maturity, the clash between the thrill of expectation and the disillusioning knowledge of truth. 'Lost Illusion' is the undisclosed title of every novel.”
“Hemingway was a prisoner of his style. No one can talk like the characters in Hemingway except the characters in Hemingway. His style in the wildest sense finally killed him.”
“When I was growing up, it was 'Communists'. Now it's 'Terrorists'. So you always have to have somebody to fight and be afraid of, so the war machine can build more bombs, guns, and bullets and everything.”

Source : Cindy Sheehan (2005). “Not One More Mother's Child”, Koa Books Incorporated
“I remember seeing McCoy Tyner in concert, and thinking that the music was incredible, but wanting to be invited in. I figured that humor was the way of letting the audience in. I've gotten a hard time about it, but I love to be funny onstage.”

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