top of page
Quote_1.png
James Laughlin

"We do very little re-writing in the office. We often take on people who show great promise and who we hope will develop into somebody important and someone good."

Standard 
 Customized
"We do very little re-writing in the office. We often take on people who show great promise and who we hope will develop into somebody important and someone good."

Exlpore more People quotes

Quote_1.png
Asa Don Brown

"It is not true that people are naturally equal for no two people can be together for even a half an hour without one acquiring an evident superiority over the other."

Quote_1.png
Asa Don Brown

"Do you genuinely love people? Or at least make an effort to like them? Your first impressions will be made easier and more successful when you start with your heart."

Quote_1.png
Asa Don Brown

"People will not remember what you did for living,they will remember how you touched them with kindness and loving."

Quote_1.png
Asa Don Brown

"He makes people pleased with him by making them first pleased with themselves."

Quote_1.png
Asa Don Brown

"People are always good company when they are doing what they really enjoy."

Quote_1.png
Asa Don Brown

"No good opera plot can be sensible, for people do not sing when they are feeling sensible."

Quote_1.png
Asa Don Brown

"With most people disbelief in a thing is founded on a blind belief in some other thing."

Quote_1.png
Asa Don Brown

"There are three categories of people exist in the world; "the wanters", "the wishers" and "the makers."

Quote_1.png
Asa Don Brown

"Prune - prune businesses, products, activities, people. Do it annually."

Quote_1.png
Asa Don Brown

"Some people bear three kinds of trouble - the ones they've had, the ones they have, and the ones they expect to have."

Explore more quotes by James Laughlin

Quote_1.png
James Laughlin
"I think that is where poetry reading becomes such an individual thing. I mean I have friend who like poets who just don't say anything to me at all, I mean they seem to me rather ordinary and pedestrian."
Quote_1.png
James Laughlin
"I think that concrete poetry seems to have, as far as I can see, come to a kind of a dead end. It doesn't seem to be going any further than it went in its high period of about five or six years ago."
Quote_1.png
James Laughlin
"It's all well and good to say that Germans were all responsible for the concentration camps, but I don't think they were. I think that was the work of a small group of fiends."
Quote_1.png
James Laughlin
"I think one ages and one dates. I tend to have a good deal of difficulty in liking some of the new poets."
Quote_1.png
James Laughlin
"I think we will always have the impulse towards visual poetry with us, and I wouldn't agree with Bly that it's a bad thing. It depends on the ability of the individual poet to do it well, and to make a shape which is interesting enough to hold your attention."
Quote_1.png
James Laughlin
"I think most people read and re-read the things that they have liked. That's certainly true in my case. I re-read Pound a great deal, I re-read Williams, I re-read Thomas, I re-read the people whom I cam to love when I was at what you might call a formative stage."
Quote_1.png
James Laughlin
"There are numerous cases of that, where one of our writers discovers another writer whom he likes, and we then take that book on. So it's a very close relationship. We can do that because we're so small."
Quote_1.png
James Laughlin
"Then, of course, there are those sad occasions when a poet or a writer has not grown, and one has to let them go because they're just not making headway. But we have a very clear personal relationship with the authors."
Quote_1.png
James Laughlin
"I try to write in plain brown blocks of American speech but occasionally set in an ancient word or a strange word just to startle the reader a little bit and to break up the monotony of the plain American cadence."
Quote_1.png
James Laughlin
"Often something comes in from which you can see that the person is good, the book may not be perfect as it is, and the person doesn't want to do a re-write. That's something we do almost nothing of."
bottom of page