Nick Laird Quotes - Page 2

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• In fact, lots of good poetry doesn't work , so I don't mind a bit of mystification or difficulty.

  Nick Laird

  Mind, Difficulty

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• 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.

  Nick Laird

  Horse, Team

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• 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

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• New York is great for writers insofar as you can pay someone to bring you food, to take your washing out and bring it back clean. It enables you. Writers always feel guilty when they're doing anything but writing, and New York allows you to really write all the time if you want to - though my kids put a limit on it.

  Nick Laird

  Writing, Kids, Guilty

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I think all writing is an attempt to complicate and subvert the dominant narrative. Writing personalizes statistics. It puts a face and a name on a number. I suppose in that sense it's always political.

  Nick Laird

  Writing, Thinking, Political

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• I think all writing is about writing. All writing is a way of going out and exploring the world, of examining the way we live, and therefore any words you put down on the page about life will, at some level, also be words about words. It's still amazing, though, how many poems can be read as being analogous to the act of writing a poem. "Go to hell, go into detail, go for the throat" is certainly about writing, but it's also hopefully about a way of living.

  Nick Laird

  Writing, Thinking, World

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• I think New York is working its way into my poems. It takes a while for a place to filter its way onto the page, but I've been reading more and more American poetry and I certainly feel it as quite a freeing force. Coming from the formally ordered tradition of poetry in Ireland, I find the expansiveness of American literature freeing in some sense.

  Nick Laird

  Reading, Thinking, Literature

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• I think all writing is political. All writing shows a preoccupation with something, whatever that thing might be, and by putting pen to paper you are establishing a hierarchy of some sort - this emotion over that emotion, this memory over that memory, this thought over another. And isn't that process of establishing a hierarchy on the page a kind of political act?

  Nick Laird

  Memories, Writing, Thinking

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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