With an age difference comes a great gap in cultural references, and so on. It's not all about race and gender. It interests me that, as you get olde…

- Nick Laird

Poetry is perhaps the oldest art form. We can go back to an age-old idea of naming things, the Adamic impulse - to give something a name has always b…

- Nick Laird

Poetry is a way of being alone without feeling alone. It allows you to experience another mind, I suppose. And it does that more fully than other art…

- Nick Laird

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…

- Nick Laird

Most of the poems I write go through forty versions and then stay in a file on my computer. I'm not very good at sending stuff out or feeling that so…

- Nick Laird

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 l…

- Nick Laird

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

- Nick Laird

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

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 a…

- Nick Laird