"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."

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Nick Laird

#Book Quotes #Writing Quotes #Thinking Quotes

“I need to stay calm and just pitch my game.”
“Delia picked at the raw sores of her conscience...Drunk or sober, Delia lived in the small town in her heart, ignoring the world in which all her love had turned to grief.”
“I hung around hippie-ish kind of people and, first of all, they never made any money. If you never make any money, you never have to declare any profession!”

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“A blush is the sign which Nature hangs out to show where chastity and honor dwell.”
“A grand old odalisque should never deign to turn housewife.”
“Itâ€™s not when you start that makes your success in the world, but when you quit.”
“... everyone young going down the long slide To happiness, endlessly.”
“I just want to remind people that the task of those who support reproductive rights and reproductive justice didn't change based on who is in the White House. We have leadership that is not supportive of what we're trying to do, but the demand for justice shouldn't be modulated.”

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