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Nick Flynn Quotes

American - Writer | January 26, 1960 -

On a good day I write, all day.

Good Day Good Day Write All Day

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

Will Everything Imagine Influences

I became an electrician after high school. But I always had this thing in me to write. But it was always a little shameful. To say you were a poet was saying you were kind of crazy, and I carried that around for a long time. I still kind of carry that. And I think it might be true, actually.

Time School Me Crazy Saying Think

My father had always identified himself as a writer to my mother when they met. When they met, he was writing this great novel, there was no doubt about it. Part of why she left him was this delusion of greatness and identifying it very directly with being an artist.

Father Mother Great Greatness Artist

That Dick Cheney is pro-torture surprises no one; he freely admits it.

Surprises He Dick Cheney Freely

That soldiers do terrible things during wartime should not surprise us.

Surprise Soldiers Things Us Terrible

You come to realize people are not simple.

Simple People You Realize Come

Certain stories we carry with us, events in our life, they define who we are. It's not a matter of getting over anything; we have to make the best of it.

Life Best Matter Events Anything Us

When I was a child, writing was the worst possible choice of a career in my family.

Family Child Writing Career Choice

If you're going to write about someone's life, you don't just use them for wallpaper. You have to honor and respect that life.

Life Respect Honor Someone You Just

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 way you reacted. That's your take; that's all you get.

Life Think You Perfect Strange Way

I'm not sure why working at a homeless shelter made sense to me, except that I needed to immerse myself in some sort of larger real-life situation to get me out of the cage of my mind, in some ways.

Myself Mind Me Homeless Situation

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