Nick Flynn Writing Quotations

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.

On a good day I write, all day.

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.

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

Read as much as you can. Write only when you feel the inner need to do so. And don’t ever rush into print.