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

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

Nick Flynn

The attention one gets from being a poet isn't great.

Nick Flynn

I had to steel myself against this psychic devastation - to see your father on the street. It's hard enough to pick up somebody you don't know from the streets, and then to actually have other people pick your father up - it was psychically devastating.

Nick Flynn

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

Nick Flynn

To be honest, in my five years as an electrician, I never got the license.

Nick Flynn

The only strategy I know of is to write every day, which I don't always do, because sometimes I just can't, for various reasons that seem out of my control.

Nick Flynn

On a good day I write, all day.

Nick Flynn

Our job as writers, as far as I can tell, is to attempt to express what seems inexpressible.

Nick Flynn

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.

Nick Flynn

I get inspired by my friends, and if a friend is a writer, that is even deeper.

Nick Flynn

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

Nick Flynn

There's this sort of male energy that we have that can seem very destructive. But it doesn't have to be. It actually can be a very positive force.

Nick Flynn

Change is one of the only constants in Buddhism; as meditation became the way I breathed in the days, this became apparent.

Nick Flynn

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

Nick Flynn