20 Nick Flynn Quotes for You to Enjoy

Nick Flynn

American Writer

Born: Jan 26, 1960

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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 find yourself lost. This is a hard, simple truth. Nick Flynn

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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 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

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On a good day I write, all day. Nick Flynn

Good Day Good Day All Day Write

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

Soldiers Terrible Surprise Us Should Wartime Things

You come to realize people are not simple. Nick Flynn

You People Simple Come Realize

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

Family Writing Worst Possible Child Choice Career

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

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I had to steel myself against this psychic devastation - to see your father on the street. It's hard enough to pick up somebody you don't know from the streets, and then to actually have other people pick your father up - it was psychically devastating. Nick Flynn

The attention one gets from being a poet isn't great. Nick Flynn

Great Poet Attention Gets Being

It takes an entire book to tell you what it was like. To see Robert De Niro play your father - it's not a simple answer. To see Julianne Moore play your mother. To see Paul Dano play you - that's an even more inscrutable question... he's amazing, he's totally amazing, but I can't really say if he's a good me or not. Nick Flynn

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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 thirteen-year-old prodigy named Plato Chan with the help of his sister. Nick Flynn

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I can weep pretty easily. I can get tears in my eyes from a beautiful work of art. Nick Flynn

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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. Nick Flynn

Change Meditation Way Only Buddhism Days Became Breathed Apparent

For the first few months, I was a comically inept parent. The first night home from the hospital, I held her bare body against my bare chest until a friend who was a doctor came by and asked what I was doing, and told me to put some clothes on that baby. Nick Flynn

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To be honest, in my five years as an electrician, I never got the license. Nick Flynn

To Be Honest License Never Got Years Five Electrician Honest

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

Job Our Tell Seems Writers Attempt Inexpressible As Far As Far Express

I believe poetry has very little to do with memory. Nick Flynn

Memory Believe Poetry Very Little

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