--- title: "1 Play Father Quotes By Nick Flynn" description: "1 Play Father quotes by Nick Flynn. Plus more from Nick Flynn and more Play Father sayings from other authors." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/342/nick-flynn-8678_amazing_it-takes-an-entire-book-to-tell-you-what_1730906.png" --- > [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 -…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/nick-flynn/it-takes-an-entire-book-to-tell-you-what-it-was-like-to-see-robert-de/) [Nick Flynn](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/nick-flynn/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/342/nick-flynn-8678_amazing_it-takes-an-entire-book-to-tell-you-what_1730906.png) ## More by Nick Flynn > [There are many ways to drown, only the most obvious wave their arms as they're going under.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/nick-flynn/there-are-many-ways-to-drown-only-the-most-obvious-wave-their-arms-as/) [Nick Flynn](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/nick-flynn/) > [In life you get one take, and it's perfect.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/nick-flynn/in-life-you-get-one-take-and-it-s-perfect/) [Nick Flynn](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/nick-flynn/) > [We got him to talk to a psych doctor once, the doctor asked if he heard things other people don't. Sure, Paul answered, I…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/nick-flynn/we-got-him-to-talk-to-a-psych-doctor-once-the-doctor-asked-if-he/) [Nick Flynn](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/nick-flynn/) > [Writers, especially poets, are particularly prone to madness.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/nick-flynn/writers-especially-poets-are-particularly-prone-to-madness/) [Nick Flynn](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/nick-flynn/) > [“When I was really drunk, I started that stupid business with the bullet in my guts again. I was the only guy at the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/nick-flynn/when-i-was-really-drunk-i-started-that-stupid-business-with-the/) [Nick Flynn](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/nick-flynn/) > [Memoir is actually the most egoless genre, even though it might seem ostensibly so much ego-driven. In order for it to succeed, you have…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/nick-flynn/memoir-is-actually-the-most-egoless-genre-even-though-it-might-seem/) [Nick Flynn](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/nick-flynn/) > [“He claims not to be drinking, but I don’t think he knows what this means.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/nick-flynn/he-claims-not-to-be-drinking-but-i-don-t-think-he-knows-what-this/) [Nick Flynn](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/nick-flynn/) > [By the time I make my way to the border of Mauritania, to the edge of the Sahara, I see no end to being…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/nick-flynn/by-the-time-i-make-my-way-to-the-border-of-mauritania-to-the-edge-of/) [Nick Flynn](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/nick-flynn/) > [“(2002) In Rome, month upon month, I struggled with how to structure the book about my father (He already had the water, he just…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/nick-flynn/2002-in-rome-month-upon-month-i-struggled-with-how-to-structure-the/) [Nick Flynn](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/nick-flynn/in-life-you-get-one-take-and-it-s-perfect-it-s-strange-afterwards-you/) [Nick Flynn](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/nick-flynn/) > [For years before I became a father, I would try to spend as much time as I could with my friends who were parents…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/nick-flynn/for-years-before-i-became-a-father-i-would-try-to-spend-as-much-time/) [Nick Flynn](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/nick-flynn/) > [“The boat has become supreme isolation, chosen isolation, holding myself apart from the world, which I only dimly understand anyway. I can sit on…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/nick-flynn/the-boat-has-become-supreme-isolation-chosen-isolation-holding-myself/) [Nick Flynn](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/nick-flynn/) > [Sometimes I'd see my father, walking past my building on his way to another nowhere. I could have given him a key, offered a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/nick-flynn/sometimes-i-d-see-my-father-walking-past-my-building-on-his-way-to/) [Nick Flynn](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/nick-flynn/) > [Everything we do, I'd imagine, influences everything we will do.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/nick-flynn/everything-we-do-i-d-imagine-influences-everything-we-will-do/) [Nick Flynn](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/nick-flynn/) > [There is a physics to the world, which non-fiction has a contract to stand in awe of, otherwise it becomes completely self-centered and ego-driven,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/nick-flynn/there-is-a-physics-to-the-world-which-non-fiction-has-a-contract-to/) [Nick Flynn](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/nick-flynn/) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/play-father/nick-flynn/#itemlist", "name": "1 Play Father Quotes By Nick Flynn", "numberOfItems": 1, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "It takes an entire book to tell you what it was like. 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