Nick Flynn Quotes
Read as much as you can. Write only when you feel the inner need to do so. And don’t ever rush into print.
Quotes to Explore
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In times of need, God can come to you in a myriad of disguises.
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In my case, I write in the past because I'm not really part of the present. I have nothing valid to say about anything current, though I have something to say about what existed then.
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If you love something - and there are things that I love - you do want more and more and more of it, but that's not the way to produce good work. So as an author, I need to write what I need to write.
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Businesses can't afford to react to what their customers want; they need to anticipate their needs.
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I get tired of stories that keep going and going and never get anywhere. It's like a promise that's never fulfilled. Stories need endings. Otherwise, they aren't really stories. Just pages.
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For all of my fortune, there are many with misfortune that need a hand.
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I have worked steadily since I started, but things are very hard for women and need to change.
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Most of us would never consider getting our car repaired without first receiving an estimate of the charges, but this is exactly what we do when we need to go to a hospital for treatment.
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I write songs that are like diary entries. I have to do it in order to feel sane.
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'The One-Eyed Man' is a novel that was one I never intended to write.
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If I write something, and I'm going to put in all that love and energy, I want to direct it.
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I don't write constantly; it's two serials and a novel a year.
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Why do I write books? Why do I think? Why should I be passionate? Because things could be different, they could be made better.
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I write in the studio.
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That's why I love crime novels so much: When I write a crime novel, the conflict is built in.
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We are living our lives more online and you need to have different ways to capture that.
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Sooner or later, I need to begin to do what any candidate does in a presidential race; I need to begin to win.
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I love South American food, and I haven't really been down there. I really need a vacation.
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Learning to write . . . is a desperately idiosyncratic, eccentric, single-souled, lifelong quest.
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Beauty is not caused, it is; Chase it and it ceases, Chase it not and it abides.
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There is no 20-year period in American history when stocks lost money.
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My family fled Iran in October 1978 as a result of the coming revolution when I was two years old. In the early days, my entire family lived together in a very crowded house, where I shared a room with my sister, cousin, and grandmother, and we would all listen to my grandmother tell stories before bedtime.
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Read as much as you can. Write only when you feel the inner need to do so. And don’t ever rush into print.
