Nick Flynn Quotes & Sayings
32 most famous Nick Flynn quotes and sayings. These are the first 10 quotes we have for him. He's a 64 year old American writer born on Jan 26, 1960.
“On a good day I write, all day.”
“Everything we do, I'd imagine, influences everything we will do.”
“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.”
“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.”
“In life you get one take, and it's perfect.”
“Our job as writers, as far as I can tell, is to attempt to express what seems inexpressible.”
“What I do is write, and I try to write as closely as I can into what I call 'the mystery.'”
“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.”
“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.”
“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.”
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