Everything we do, I'd imagine, influences everything we will do. — Nick Flynn Imagine Copy Share Image
I get inspired by my friends, and if a friend is a writer, that is even deeper. — Nick Flynn Deeper Copy Share Image
“He claims not to be drinking, but I don’t think he knows what this means.” — Nick Flynn Drinking Copy Share Image
“I’m riding beside my best friend, and I tell him, in the same offhand tone my mother had used, That’s my grandfather’s… — Nick Flynn Best friend Copy Share Image
Who doesn't want to just disappear, at some point in the day, in a year, to just step off the map and… — Nick Flynn Disappear Copy Share Image
“You know the way Jesus rips open his shirt to show us his heart, all flaming and thorny, the way he points… — Nick Flynn Open Shirt Copy Share Image
“And though he knew it was only the whiskey talking, he also knew that the whiskey talked daily.” — Nick Flynn Wine Copy Share Image
There's this sort of male energy that we have that can seem very destructive. But it doesn't have to be. It actually… — Nick Flynn Actually Copy Share Image
There are many ways to drown, only the most obvious wave their arms as they're going under. — Nick Flynn Arms Copy Share Image
For years before I became a father, I would try to spend as much time as I could with my friends who… — Nick Flynn Became Copy Share Image
“My statement to Harris that his book contains much to admire is specious hyperbole. In The End of Faith , Harris rails… — Nick Flynn Books Copy Share Image
I had to steel myself against this psychic devastation - to see your father on the street. It's hard enough to pick… — Nick Flynn Actually Copy Share Image
My father had always identified himself as a writer to my mother when they met. When they met, he was writing this… — Nick Flynn About Copy Share Image
By the time I'm nine I know the world is a dangerous place. I've heard whispers about razorblades in apples, about Charlie… — Nick Flynn Apples Copy Share Image
“note: The phrase Son of God had many meanings in Jesus' time, one of which was "a son born without a father,"… — Nick Flynn Christianity Copy Share Image
Some part of me knew he would show up, that if I stood in one place long enough he would find me,… — Nick Flynn Ends Copy Share Image
We got him to talk to a psych doctor once, the doctor asked if he heard things other people don't. Sure, Paul… — Nick Flynn Bird Copy Share Image
If it had been a heart attack, the newspapermight have used the word massive,as if a mountain range had openedinside her, but… — Nick Flynn Bells Copy Share Image
“The South African artist William Kentridge speaks to this type of certainty: 'To say that one needs art, or politics, that incorporate… — Nick Flynn 131 Copy Share Image
“If not for the rats you could crawl beneath a bush. A bush. A bench. The alliterative universe. Rats too can pass… — Nick Flynn Poetic Copy Share Image
Writers, especially poets, are particularly prone to madness. There exists a striking association between creativity and manic depression. Why are more creative… — Nick Flynn Ability Copy Share Image
“When I was really drunk, I started that stupid business with the bullet in my guts again. I was the only guy… — Nick Flynn Business Copy Share Image
By the time I make my way to the border of Mauritania, to the edge of the Sahara, I see no end… — Nick Flynn Borders Copy Share Image
“The boat has become supreme isolation, chosen isolation, holding myself apart from the world, which I only dimly understand anyway. I can… — Nick Flynn Impermanence Copy Share Image
It takes an entire book to tell you what it was like. To see Robert De Niro play your father - it's… — Nick Flynn Amazing Copy Share Image
Perhaps it is our fear, that in the silence between stories, in the moment of falling, the fear that we will never… — Nick Flynn Fall Copy Share Image
In my experience, whatever happens clings to us like barnacles on the hull of a ship, slowing us slightly, both uglifying and… — Nick Flynn Barnacles Copy Share Image
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… — Nick Flynn Life Copy Share Image
There is a physics to the world, which non-fiction has a contract to stand in awe of, otherwise it becomes completely self-centered… — Nick Flynn Awe Copy Share Image
Memoir is actually the most egoless genre, even though it might seem ostensibly so much ego-driven. In order for it to succeed,… — Nick Flynn Autobiographical Copy Share Image
What you fear your whole life comes to pass. You end up living toward it, you spend your life running from it… — Nick Flynn Circles Copy Share Image
