Quotes by Nick Tosches

Nick Tosches

For years, I never really pondered how I came to be a writer from where I came from.

Years

How do I start writing a book? I sit there, I come up with an opening line, and then I go little by little. I’ll wonder, Well, what’s coming? And that goes right through to the very end. For over a dozen years now, I’ve had a recurring dream where I’m reading a book and the pages are blank, but as I read, the words come to exist as fast as my eyes can move. Strange, strange thing.

Book

Dream

Moving

I don’t have a college degree.

College

College Degree

Degrees

I don’t know if enjoy is the right word for alcohol. I like to drink, but I don’t like enforced social drinking. When I don’t wanna drink, I don’t wanna drink. I haven’t had a desire to drink for four months. When I think of the taste of it, no desire. The trouble is the wines I love I can barely afford, which is a great method to cut down on your drinking: Drink only what you can’t afford.

Cutting

Drinking

Wine

I think Elvis Presley will never be solved

Thinking

I think the tendency with parents is to make your kid not unlike the next kid but to overprotect and say, “My way’s better than whatever you’ve got in mind.” But by the time that tie’s over that shoulder and they’re drinking that obligatory brewski with the boys, it’s like, Man, who are you people?

Boys

Drinking

Kids

I wanted to just get a job so I could have enough money for my own apartment and be able to get drunk. And I did. Back then, on $125, you could do that in Manhattan. I was 19 years old the first time I got published and paid. I think it was a hundred bucks. I stared at my name on the check for 20 minutes.

Drunk

Enough

Thinking

I’ve gone more than 40 years without having to use an alarm clock or go to an office. At this point, I don’t think I’d be capable of not writing. I don’t think I could deprive myself of that sky. It would be like putting an animal in a cage.

Animal

Thinking

Writing

Joe Bonomo has written a fine book: a book not only about a band or times passed, but also about the rare virtue of endurance.

Band

Book

Endurance

Johnny Depp is, to me, a rare kindred spirit with like sensibilities, who has escaped the beast. He’s probably one of the few people that have survived Los Angeles as a human being.

Los Angeles

People

Spirit

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Animal

Attention

Band

Book

Boys

Coffee

College

College Degree

Country

Couple

Cutting

Danger

Dark

Degrees

Demon

Desire

Dinosaurs

Dream

Drinking

Drunk

Endurance

Enough

Father

Fear Of Death

Friends Come And Go

Go To Hell

Great Book

Guy

Hell

Kids

Life Is Short

Los Angeles

Mean

Men

Morning

Moving

Mystery

Needed

Nice

Passion

People

Powerful

Progress

Real

Short Life

Simple

Spirit

Team

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Trying

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Quotes by Nick Tosches

Nick Tosches

For years, I never really pondered how I came to be a writer from where I came from.

I don’t have a college degree.

I think Elvis Presley will never be solved

I’ve gone more than 40 years without having to use an alarm clock or go to an office. At this point, I don’t think I’d be capable of not writing. I don’t think I could deprive myself of that sky. It would be like putting an animal in a cage.

Joe Bonomo has written a fine book: a book not only about a band or times passed, but also about the rare virtue of endurance.

Johnny Depp is, to me, a rare kindred spirit with like sensibilities, who has escaped the beast. He’s probably one of the few people that have survived Los Angeles as a human being.

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