Nick Flynn Quotes & Sayings (Page 2)

“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.”

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

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

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

“You come to realize people are not simple.”

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

“I believe poetry has very little to do with memory.”

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

“I get inspired by my friends, and if a friend is a writer, that is even deeper.”

“The attention one gets from being a poet isn't great.”