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"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."

George Murray on Respect

More quotes about Respect

• "An individual who breaks a law that conscience tells him is unjust, and who willingly accepts the penalty of imprisonment in order to arouse the conscience of the community over its injustice, is in reality expressing the highest respect for the law."

  Martin Luther King, Jr. on Respect

• "Everyone should be respected as an individual, but no one idolized."

  Albert Einstein on Respect

• "Let every man be respected as an individual and no man idolized."

  Albert Einstein on Respect

• "Be peaceful, be courteous, obey the law, respect everyone but if someone puts his hand on you, send him to the cemetery."

  Malcolm X on Respect

• "If once you forfeit the confidence of your fellow-citizens, you can never regain their respect and esteem."

  Abraham Lincoln on Respect

More quotes by George Murray

• "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."

• "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."

• "I've often entertained paranoid suspicions about my fridge and what it's been doing to my poetry when I'm not looking, but I never even considered that my fan was thinking about me."

• "The poetry community here has been extraordinarily welcoming."

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