Books Quote by Nick Laird

I think like a genius, I write like a distinguished author, and I speak like a child.

— Vladimir Nabokov

I think like a genius, I write like a distinguished author, and I speak like a child… My hemmings and hawings over the telephone…

— Vladimir Nabokov

Good taste cannot supply the place of genius in literature, for the best proof of taste, when there is no genius, would be, not…

— Madame de Stael

You know what's a great way of tricking people into thinking you're a genius? Write a show about geniuses!

— Lin-Manuel Miranda

Beauty like hers is genius.

— Dante Gabriel Rossetti

There is no genius in life like the genius of energy and industry.

— Donald G. Mitchell

Sometimes you have crazy ideas that sound crazy to everybody, but I'm sure everybody has had a crazy idea before. When you pull it…

— Fabolous

Many an author will speak of writing, in his best work, more than he actually knows.

— Nancy Hale

As a reader I feel included a lot in Julie Carr’s hard and beautiful book. I can pretty much hear its author speak—a whispering…

— Eileen Myles

“Books are just words, yet arranged by the author so that they speak to your very soul.”

— Jason Ellis

“Any fool can make history, but it takes a genius to write it.”

— Oscar Wilde

A man writes because he is tormented, because he doubts. He needs to constantly prove to himself and the others that he’s worth something.…

— Andrei Tarkovsky