Nick Laird Quotes
Cargo cults fascinate me partly because Christianity itself is in many ways a cargo cult.
I don't think there's any law where you have to read a poem and immediately understand it.
She was privileged enough to feel at home anywhere, and to equate squalor with authenticity.
Nabokov quote: "I think like a genius, I write like a distinguished author, and I speak like a child."
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.
A huge portion of Trump voters are incredibly pleased with how he's performing. They see what they want to see.
In fact, lots of good poetry doesn't work , so I don't mind a bit of mystification or difficulty.
Writing a poem is a more personal experience, I think, than writing prose. And perhaps reading a poem is a more personal experience than reading prose, though that's harder to say.
That's what Samuel Johnson said: "Read over your compositions, and wherever you meet with a passage which you think particularly fine, strike it out."
When you're rereading or editing your book and you start to expect that this work is going to be reviewed, and you can sort of tell which line is going to show up in reviews.
There used to be one writer rather than a team of writers. It's the old line about a camel being a horse designed by committee.
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.
