Writer Quotes by Nick Flynn

There are many ways to drown, only the most obvious wave their arms as they're going under.

— Nick Flynn

In life you get one take, and it's perfect.

— 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…

— Nick Flynn

Writers, especially poets, are particularly prone to madness.

— 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…

— 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…

— Nick Flynn

“He claims not to be drinking, but I don’t think he knows what this means.”

— 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…

— 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…

— 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…

— 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…

— 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…

— 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…

— Nick Flynn

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

— 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,…

— Nick Flynn