Nick Laird Quotes About Books

Quotes about: Books

• Publishing a book is a great thing, and I'm grateful, but it's also a horrible, exposing thing. Once you've published a book, you never write quite as freely again. You're aware, from that point onward, of the kinds of things critics might say about it. You're aware of the kinds of things your publishers might like and dislike about it. You're half-aware of marketing strategies - of all the stuff around the book. Whereas with your very first piece of fiction, if you're lucky, those things barely occur to you at all.

  Nick Laird

  Grateful, Book, Writing

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

• 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.

  Nick Laird

  Book

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• 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.

  Nick Laird

  Book, Writing, Thinking

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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

  Nick Laird

  Book

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• 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.

  Nick Laird

  Book, Reading, Reading Books

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• 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.

  Nick Laird

  Book, Reason

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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