“My most recent novel didn't start out scaring me, but as I got deeper into writing it, it scared me. It's not so much where the story's going. It's where it came from. I always come out of it thinking, Okay, that got it all outta me. The next one's gonna be nice and simple, and it's not gonna scare me, and that never seems to happen.” ThinkingWritingSimpleNovelNiceOkayScaredScareBeing Nice Author:Nick Tosches
“People speaking into handheld devices while they walk down the street and saying to the device, "I'm walking down the street now." People are enslaved. I was just up in the country for a few days last week and it was great: no television, no telephone, no nothing. I walked through the woods, sat around, smoked. And it was lovely. I think the desire to be free has mutated, and we now live in an era when the slaves celebrate their slavery - this whole corporate concept of being part of a "team" at work.” PeopleThinkingCountryDesireWeekTeamWalkingSlaverySlaveLovelyCelebrateSat Author:Nick Tosches
“People think they're gonna make a living off poetry. Ten years ago, maybe a couple of people did. Right now, no one, I don't think.” PeopleThinkingCouple Author:Nick Tosches
“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.” ThinkingDesireEnjoyCuttingTroubleDrinkWineDrinkingAlcohol Author:Nick Tosches
“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.” ThinkingEnoughFirst TimeDrunkApartment Author:Nick Tosches
“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.” ThinkingWritingAnimalOfficeCapableClock Author:Nick Tosches
“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?” PeopleThinkingMenMindKidsParentBoysDrinking Author:Nick Tosches
“I think Elvis Presley will never be solved” Thinking Book:Country: The Twisted Roots of Rock 'n' Roll Source: Country: The Twisted Roots of Rock 'n' Roll
