Nick Flynn quotes

On a good day I write, all day. (Nick Flynn)
Everything we do, I'd imagine, influences everything we will do.
Nick Flynn
To be honest, in my five years as an electrician, I never got the license.
Nick Flynn
My father had always identified himself as a writer to my mother when they met. When they met, he was writing this great novel, there was no doubt about it. Part of why she left him was this delusion of greatness and identifying it very directly with being an artist.
Nick Flynn
Who doesn't want to just disappear, at some point in the day, in a year, to just step off the map and float?
Nick Flynn
There are many ways to drown, only the most obvious wave their arms as they're going under.
Nick Flynn
Alcohol is the river we sit on the banks of, contemplating. Sometimes we watch ourselves float past, sometimes we watch ourselves sink.
Nick Flynn
Perhaps it is our fear, that in the silence between stories, in the moment of falling, the fear that we will never find the one story which will save us, and so we lunge for another, and we feel safe again, if only for as long as we are telling it.
Nick Flynn
Some part of me knew he would show up, that if I stood in one place long enough he would find me, like you're taught to do when you're lost. But they never taught us what to do if both of you are lost, and you both end up in the same place, waiting.
Nick Flynn
Perhaps everyone has a story that could break your heart...
Nick Flynn
Here's a secret: Everyone, if they live long enough, will lose their way at some point. You will lose your way; you will wake up one morning and find yourself lost. This is a hard, simple truth. (Nick Flynn)
That soldiers do terrible things during wartime should not surprise us.
Nick Flynn
I get inspired by my friends, and if a friend is a writer, that is even deeper.
Nick Flynn
I believe poetry has very little to do with memory.
Nick Flynn
When I was a child, writing was the worst possible choice of a career in my family.
Nick Flynn
I became an electrician after high school. But I always had this thing in me to write. But it was always a little shameful. To say you were a poet was saying you were kind of crazy, and I carried that around for a long time. I still kind of carry that. And I think it might be true, actually.
Nick Flynn
Certain stories we carry with us, events in our life, they define who we are. It's not a matter of getting over anything; we have to make the best of it.
Nick Flynn
The first book I could call mine, my first book, was a picture book, 'The Magic Monkey' - it was adapted from an old Chinese legend by a thirteen-year-old prodigy named Plato Chan with the help of his sister.
Nick Flynn
I can weep pretty easily. I can get tears in my eyes from a beautiful work of art.
Nick Flynn
Change is one of the only constants in Buddhism; as meditation became the way I breathed in the days, this became apparent.
Nick Flynn
In life you get one take, and it's perfect. It's strange, afterwards you might think I shouldn't have reacted that way, but that's the way you reacted. That's your take; that's all you get. (Nick Flynn)
If you're going to write about someone's life, you don't just use them for wallpaper. You have to honor and respect that life.
Nick Flynn
The attention one gets from being a poet isnt great.
Nick Flynn