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Chuck Klosterman Quotes
A lot of people have this strategy where if they have a hard question they wait to ask it to the end of the interview because they think the person is going to walk out. But what they have to realize is, is that if the person walks out, they have a pretty successful story. - Chuck Klosterman Quotes
A whole bunch of months passed and I didnt hear anything and then he emailed and asked if I could do a little piece on POD and Queens of the Stone Age. - Chuck Klosterman Quotes
Anybody who says they are a good liar obviously is not, because any legitimately savvy liar would always insist theyre honest about everything. - Chuck Klosterman Quotes
Anyone who claims to be good at lying is obviously bad at lying. Thus - as a writer myself - I cannot comment on whether or not writers are exceptionally good liars, because whatever I said would actually mean its complete opposite. - Chuck Klosterman Quotes
At a magazine, everything you do is edited by a bunch of people, by committee, and a lot of them are, were, or think of themselves as writers. Part of that is because magazines worry about their voice. - Chuck Klosterman Quotes
Book writing is a little different because, in my case, my editor is a year younger than me and basically has the same sensibility as me. - Chuck Klosterman Quotes
Even though I wanted to experience all these things I was interested in, I couldnt get them. So I had to think critically and culturally about what was available. - Chuck Klosterman Quotes
Five years ago, I thought I was going to write for newspapers; if I worked really, really hard I could one day work for the Minneapolis Star Tribune. - Chuck Klosterman Quotes
How do I put this? There are a lot of smart people writing about music but not a lot of people who are interested in journalism writing about music. - Chuck Klosterman Quotes
I also did an Ozzy piece for him, and so I got hired. Everything happened really fast. I cant give people advice, because everything in my life changed completely in less than a year and its still not something I am used to. - Chuck Klosterman Quotes
I feel sorry for people who have to edit me. Which is why book writing is by far the most enjoyable. Really the only thing its based on is whether its good or not. No book editor, in my experience, is getting a manuscript and try to rewrite it. - Chuck Klosterman Quotes
I got to Spin because I put my phone number in the front of Fargo Rock City and one of the people who called me was David Byrne. - Chuck Klosterman Quotes
I grew up on a farm, and we didnt have cable and only limited radio stations, so I wasnt inundated with culture the way people in other parts of the country were. But I was really interested in it. - Chuck Klosterman Quotes
I keep saying the word weird over and over again, but its the only way I can describe it. - Chuck Klosterman Quotes
I was fortunate that I was at newspapers for eight years, where I wrote at least five or six stories every week. You get used to interviewing lots of different people about a lot of different things. And they arent things you know about until you do the story. - Chuck Klosterman Quotes
Ive been asked about this constantly, and I compare it to how if youre walking down the street and some schizo guy comes up to you and vomits on you: You wouldnt be hurt by that, youd just think its weird. - Chuck Klosterman Quotes
If youre doing an interview, you need conversational tension. After you talk to them, youre not going to have a relationship with them, theyre not going to like you, theyre not going to be your friend. - Chuck Klosterman Quotes
In Fargo, they say, well, thats a job. How well do you get paid? For example, for this book I was written about in Entertainment Weekly, and it was kind of cool because my mom asked me if Entertainment Weekly was a magazine or a newspaper. - Chuck Klosterman Quotes
In and of itself, nothing really matters. What matters is that nothing is ever in and of itself. - Chuck Klosterman Quotes
It didnt seem remotely possible. I had no idea how people got those jobs, I didnt know what the steps were, it never even dawned on me. It seemed so outside the realm of possibility. - Chuck Klosterman Quotes
Its just that whats important there is different there than whats important is here. Here, people care that you wrote a book or that you work in the media. - Chuck Klosterman Quotes
My favorite line of fiction is from Raymond Carvers Gazebo: That morning she pours Teachers over my belly and licks it off. That afternoon, she tries to jump out the window. I go, Holly, this cant continue. - Chuck Klosterman Quotes
The biggest hurdle to writing Fargo Rock City was that I couldnt afford a home computer - I had to get a new job so I could buy a computer. It could all change though. In five years, I could be back at some daily newspaper, which wouldnt be so bad. - Chuck Klosterman Quotes
The biggest problem in rock journalism is that often the writers main motivation is to become friends with the band. Theyre not really journalists; theyre people who want to be involved in rock and roll. - Chuck Klosterman Quotes
The essays are different because ultimately its things Im interested in, and Im really just writing about myself and using those subjects as a prism. - Chuck Klosterman Quotes
The essays are very solipsistic and self-absorbed, Im totally conscious of that. To me, book writing is fun, and I basically just write about things that are entertaining to myself. - Chuck Klosterman Quotes
To me, every interview, even if you love the artist, needs to be somewhat adversarial. Which doesnt mean you need to attack the person, but you do need to look at it like youre trying to get information that has not been written about before. - Chuck Klosterman Quotes
When youre writing for newspapers you have all these parameters. You cant swear, you have to use short paragraphs, all that. If you stay within those parameters, you have lots of freedom because youre writing for the next day. - Chuck Klosterman Quotes
Youre trying to find new ideas in people. I always think to myself, what question I am least comfortable asking the person? And then I make sure I ask it early in the interview. - Chuck Klosterman Quotes
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