"After high school I was going to be an architect. In fact, I was studying to be an architect when the audition for 'The Monkees' came along."

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I became an electrician after high school. But I always had this thing in me to write. But it was always a little shameful. To say you were a poet was saying you were kind of crazy, and I carried that around for a long time. I still kind of carry that. And I think it might be true, actually.

— Nick Flynn