Quotes by Nick Tosches

About Nick Tosches:

Nick Tosches is an American journalist, novelist, biographer, and poet. His 1982 biography of Jerry Lee Lewis, Hellfire, was called by Rolling Stone "the best rock n’ roll biography ever written."
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Exceptional men do not hold their experiences to be out of the ordinary or of interest to anyone else. Unlike the trodden fungus-men, they are not so ignorantly and presumptuously self-absorbed. They are nobody and they know it. They shun notice. The...

Nick Tosches

The things I wanted to be when I was a kid were an archeologist, because of dinosaur bones; a garbage man, because they got to ride on the side of the trucks; and a writer.

Nick Tosches

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

Nick Tosches

I don't have a college degree.

Nick Tosches

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 get to experience.

Nick Tosches

As a young man, I felt a need to communicate with somebody or something, but it seemed in my own particular environment that that wasn't an option. On the other hand, I probably lacked the courage to do so, even if it was an option.

Nick Tosches

Mortality applies to every aspect of life. The fear of death is the driving fear of life.

Nick Tosches

When I was young, I kept trying to read 'Moby-Dick', and I couldn't get that far into it. And I kept thinking, 'Well, man, if I can't read the great American novel, I could never be a writer.' And this bothered me a great deal.

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Life is a racket. Writing is a racket. Sincerity is a racket. Everything's a racket.

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To me, music's something I can dance to or listen to. To write about it is always more of what the music represents, or what it reflects. Like an ideal song, to me, is a song that you can dance to, that summons up some darker and greater mystery.

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Author Bio

  • NameNick Tosches
  • DescriptionAmerican writer
  • BornOctober 17, 1949
  • CountryUnited States Of America
  • ProfessionJournalist; Novelist