Nick Laird Quotes - Page 2

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• It seems to me that metaphors come down to a certain idea of interconnectedness - that everything relates to everything else. Metaphors don't believe in autonomy. And in the end, perhaps that idea of interconnectedness is a moral position.

  Nick Laird

  Believe, Moral, Metaphor

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• A huge portion of Trump voters are incredibly pleased with how he's performing. They see what they want to see.

  Nick Laird

  Performing

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• Writing fiction, for me, is a more indirect form of self-exploration than writing verse. When I'm working on a novel I'm moving characters around and I'm thinking about plot and there's a lot of other things going on at the level of structure and story. With a poem, a single idea or line or emotion can sometimes be enough - there's often a sense, in the best poems, of capturing a single instant. Perhaps poems differ from prose in the degree of solace they can offer - by speaking so personally, so directly, about shared experience. A few lines of poetry can provide comfort.

  Nick Laird

  Moving, Writing, Character

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• 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.

  Nick Laird

  Reading, Writing, Thinking

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• In terms of poetry, I worry about being far from the voice of my childhood, the rhythms of Ulster speech, and the liveliness of its dialect. I know there is a vitality to New York talk, but living among people of different cultures does mean you're forced to homogenize and lose the interesting words and phrases in order to be understood.

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  Mean, People, Interesting

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• 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."

  Nick Laird

  Thinking, Over You, Composition

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

  Nick Laird

  Book

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• 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

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