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Quote by Nick Laird

“I don't think there's any law where you have to read a poem and immediately understand it.”

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Nick Laird, born in 1975, is an accomplished Irish novelist known for his distinctive narrative style and profound portrayal of rural Irish life. more

“The whole process of having to put the thing into the world seems so antithetical to the act of writing. Poetry is slightly easier, because there's less money and fewer people involved. You just let a book of poems trickle out in the world, and it finds its own people. Novels are much harder, and you don't think you should have to do some of the things you're made to do.”

People Thinking World Writing Book Novel Poetry Is Writing Poetry

Author:Nick Laird

“You become a writer because you like to be alone in a room with your books.”

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Author:Nick Laird

“Nabokov quote: "I think like a genius, I write like a distinguished author, and I speak like a child."”

Thinking Writing Children Speak Genius

Author:Nick Laird

“The whole point of writing poetry or fiction is that you get to agonize over whatever it is you want to say, and you finally say it, and you get it as perfect as you can make it. Then you're forced to babble freestyle.”

Writing Perfect Writing Poetry

Author:Nick Laird

“I'm always reading books, I'm always having encounters, I'm always taking trips. Whatever it is you come up with about how you got started, that's equally true for all the books you didn't start.”

Book Reading Reading Books

Author:Nick Laird

“The reason that the book exists is because there was a gap in you. You wrote the book to fulfill that gap in some way.”

Book Reason

Author:Nick Laird

“I think everybody that grows up in Florida, you've got a little chip on your shoulder. It's not as bad as people think it is, but it's pretty bad. When you go to other places you're just like, "Oh, god. What was that about?"”

People Thinking Growing Up

Author:Benjamin Booker

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