“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
“My father’s on my radar, but most of the time I shut it off.” — Nick Flynn Parenting 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
“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
“And though he knew it was only the whiskey talking, he also knew that the whiskey talked daily.” — Nick Flynn 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 get inspired by my friends, and if a friend is a writer, that is even deeper. — Nick Flynn Deeper 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
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
“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
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
I became an electrician after high school. But I always had this thing in me to write. But it was always a… — Nick Flynn After high school 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
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
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
“If it had been a heart attack, the newspaper might have used the word massive , as if a mountain range had… — Nick Flynn Death Copy Share Image
Read as much as you can. Write only when you feel the inner need to do so. And don’t ever rush into… — Nick Flynn Books Copy Share Image
“Aside from these infrequent outbursts he possesses the gentle demeanor that sometimes trails the newly sober, that deep acceptance that comes with… — Nick Flynn Life Copy Share Image
I'm not sure why working at a homeless shelter made sense to me, except that I needed to immerse myself in some… — Nick Flynn Cage Copy Share Image
“we fill the nothing with suns, line them up, swallow sap, swallow field, drop by drop, each stem a pump. Rose to… — Nick Flynn Flowers Copy Share Image
