Quote by Nick Laird Download Open image ““We would all rather be loved for what we seem to be.”” — Nick Laird ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.4 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare
“Most of the time we're loved for what we can do rather than for who we are.” — Ann Patchett Copy Share Image
“We all want to be loved. And sometimes it doesn't even matter who loves us, as long as it makes us feel less alone” — Kate from Love and Sex movie Copy Share Image
“I should think that is what anyone would wish- to be loved for themselves and not their position.” — Kendare Blake Copy Share Image
“In order to love people, we must learn to accept them as they are, not try to make them the way we wish they… — Joyce Meyer Copy Share Image
“Love me or hate me if you want, I don't care. But do it for all that I am, with all that I am.” — Marieke Nijkamp Copy Share Image
“There is nothing I would not do for those who I care about. I have no notion of loving people by halves, it is… — José N. Harris Copy Share Image
“Would you rather be loved unconditionally and not love, or be desperately in love and not loved in return?” — Melissa Jensen Copy Share Image
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… — Nick Laird Copy Share Image
What passes for love is imperfect knowledge. Not knowing, initially, allows faithlessness to dress up as its opposite; casts the inarticulate as enigmatic, the… — Nick Laird Copy Share Image
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… — Nick Laird Copy Share Image
I think all writing is an attempt to complicate and subvert the dominant narrative. Writing personalizes statistics. It puts a face and a name… — Nick Laird Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
You become a writer because you like to be alone in a room with your books. — Nick Laird Copy Share Image
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… — Nick Laird Copy Share Image
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… — Nick Laird Copy Share Image
Poetry is a way of being alone without feeling alone. It allows you to experience another mind, I suppose. And it does that more… — Nick Laird Copy Share Image
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… — Nick Laird Copy Share Image
Nabokov quote: "I think like a genius, I write like a distinguished author, and I speak like a child." — Nick Laird Copy Share Image
