The Paris Review interview
Context: Why do human beings need to confess? Maybe if you don’t have that secret confession, you don’t have a poem — don’t even have a story. Don’t have a writer. If most poetry doesn’t seem to be in any sense confessional, it’s because the strategy of concealment, of obliquity, can be so compulsive that it’s almost entirely successful.
“I am going to become a writer for Cosmo - you don’t have to make any sense at all. Or maybe I’ll be a bloke, they don’t have to make sense either.”
Source: Angus, Thongs and Full-Frontal Snogging
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“Blade muttered, “Makes as much sense as the story of any other god. Meaning it don’t.””
Source: Dreams of Steel (1990), Chapter 10 (p. 261)
2010s
Source: Robert Krulwich. " Nature Has A Formula That Tells Us When It's Time To Die http://www.npr.org/blogs/krulwich/2013/01/22/169976655/nature-has-a-formula-that-tells-us-when-its-time-to-die," at npr.org, Jan. 22, 2013.
“You don’t ever get the sense that she's making music to pander to anyone.”
The Kate Bush Story (2014)
Context: You don’t ever get the sense that she's making music to pander to anyone. I think you always get her absolute best attempt at her true vision whenever you get a Kate Bush record.
“That idea only makes sense if you don’t think too hard about it.”
Chapter 18 (p. 308) Vorkosigan Saga, The Warrior's Apprentice (1986)
“I don’t know about five years from now. I have no plans for that. Maybe I’ll be forgotten by then.”
2000-09, Ai Weiwei: A Rebel of Poet Roots, 2008
Section 5 (p. 127)
Short fiction, You’ll Take the High Road (1973)
Colin Serjent, "Blake's 08, http://www.catalystmedia.org.uk/issues/nerve9/peter_blake.php Nerve, Autumn 2006
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