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 tha…

- Nick Tosches

They say nobody has the attention span to read great books early in life. If I start to read something good, I'll look and it's 86 pages already. Att…

- Nick Tosches

I think Elvis Presley will never be solved

- 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 d…

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The main event is freedom. I often wonder if I had the complete freedom to not have to write, if I would write. That's the one mystery that I hope I …

- Nick Tosches

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 surviv…

- Nick Tosches

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 w…

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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 i…

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The thing is, the more you fear death, the more you die. So it really doesn't pay off. It's a fear of the dark. Like any experience in life, you wond…

- Nick Tosches