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

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• Nick Flynn:

  For years before I became a father, I would try to spend as much time as I could with my friends wh

• Nick Flynn:

  That's the thing about a book: You're in the public life for a little bit, and then you sort of go

• Nick Flynn:

  I can weep pretty easily. I can get tears in my eyes from a beautiful work of art.

• Nick Flynn:

  There's this sort of male energy that we have that can seem very destructive. But it doesn't have t

• Nick Flynn:

  I'd always imagined that one day I would be a father, but mostly it was off my radar. I admired fri

• Anita Baker:

  Applause felt like approval, and it became a drug that soothed the pain, but only temporarily.

• Anita Baker:

  Completeness? Happiness? These words don't come close to describing my emotions. There truly is not

• Anita Baker:

  I don't let people use me. That's why I like a small number of people in my life. The more people i

• Anita Baker:

  I would say that my peak was making my first million at the ripe age of 29, after the first album.

• Anita Baker:

  I'm picking and choosing in terms of the stress factor. If it's not fun, I'm not going to do it.