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30 quotes by Nick Flynn

Nick Flynn (born January 26, 1960) is an American writer, playwright, and poet. His most recent publication is The Reenactments, which chronicles Flynn's experience during the making of Being Flynn, a film based on his acclaimed 2004 memoir, Another Bullshit Night in Suck City. Flynn is also the author of three collections of poetry, including Some Ether, which won the inaugural PEN/Joyce Osterweil Award for Poetry in 1999, and was a finalist...
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On a good day I write, all day.

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Everything we do, I'd imagine, influences everything we will do.

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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... →

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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.

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Our job as writers, as far as I can tell, is to attempt to express what seems inexpressible.

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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... →

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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... →

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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... →

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That Dick Cheney is pro-torture surprises no one; he freely admits it.

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That soldiers do terrible things during wartime should not surprise us.

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When I was a child, writing was the worst possible choice of a career in my family.

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You come to realize people are not simple.

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Change is one of the only constants in Buddhism; as meditation became the way I breathed in the days, this became apparent.

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