Writing a poem is a more personal experience, I think, than writing prose. And perhaps reading a poem … - Nick Laird

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Applause should be an emotional response to the music, rather than a regulated social duty.

Nick Laird

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.

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

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Nabokov quote: "I think like a genius, I write like a distinguished author, and I speak like a child. "

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The whole point of writing poetry or fiction is that you get to agonize over whatever it is you want to say, and you finally say it, and you get it as perfect as you can make it. Then you're forced to babble freestyle.

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Cargo cults fascinate me partly because Christianity itself is in many ways a cargo cult.

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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.

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Applause should be an emotional response to the music, rather than a regulated social duty.

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Tony La Russa

We never quit trying. I know that's kind of corny, but the fact is we never quit trying. The dugout was alive even when we were behind. And sometimes it works.

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Leon Uris

Who here wants to be a writer?' I asked. Everyone in the room raised his hand. 'Why the hell aren't you home writing?' I said, and left the stage.

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George Santayana

Those who do not remember the past are condemned to repeat it.

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Most people enter into relationships with an eye toward what they can get out of them, rather than what they can put into them. The purpose of a relationship is to decide what part of yourself you'd like to see "show up," not what part of another you can capture and hold. The purpose of a relationship is not to have another who might complete you; but to have another with whom you might share your completeness.

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