There are many ways to drown, only the most obvious wave their arms as they're going under. — Nick Flynn Arms 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
“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
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 Deeper Copy Share Image
“He claims not to be drinking, but I don’t think he knows what this means.” — Nick Flynn 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
“(2002) In Rome, month upon month, I struggled with how to structure the book about my father (He already had the water,… — Nick Flynn Books 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
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
“The boat has become supreme isolation, chosen isolation, holding myself apart from the world, which I only dimly understand anyway. I can… — Nick Flynn Loneliness Copy Share Image
Sometimes I'd see my father, walking past my building on his way to another nowhere. I could have given him a key,… — Nick Flynn Bed Copy Share Image
Everything we do, I'd imagine, influences everything we will do. — Nick Flynn Imagine 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
“You know the way Jesus rips open his shirt to show us his heart, all flaming and thorny, the way he points… — Nick Flynn Copy Share Image
“[excerpt] The usual I say. Essence. Spirit. Medicine. A taste. I say top shelf. Straight up. A shot. A sip. A nip.… — Nick Flynn Breakfast of champions 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
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
Alcohol is the river we sit on the banks of, contemplating. Sometimes we watch ourselves float past, sometimes we watch ourselves sink. — Nick Flynn Alcohol 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
Certain stories we carry with us, events in our life, they define who we are. It's not a matter of getting over… — Nick Flynn Certain 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
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
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
