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Chuck Klosterman

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

Chuck Klosterman

Anybody who says they are a good liar obviously is not, because any legitimately savvy liar would always insist they’re honest about everything.

– Chuck Klosterman

Chuck Klosterman

Even though I wanted to experience all these things I was interested in, I couldn’t get them. So I had to think critically and culturally about what was available.

– Chuck Klosterman

Chuck Klosterman

I grew up on a farm, and we didn’t have cable and only limited radio stations, so I wasn’t inundated with culture the way people in other parts of the country were. But I was really interested in it.

– Chuck Klosterman

Chuck Klosterman

The biggest hurdle to writing Fargo Rock City was that I couldn’t 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 wouldn’t be so bad.

– Chuck Klosterman

Chuck Klosterman

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 it’s based on is whether it’s good or not. No book editor, in my experience, is getting a manuscript and try to rewrite it.

– Chuck Klosterman

Chuck Klosterman

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

Chuck Klosterman

When you’re writing for newspapers you have all these parameters. You can’t swear, you have to use short paragraphs, all that. If you stay within those parameters, you have lots of freedom because you’re writing for the next day.

– Chuck Klosterman

Chuck Klosterman

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

Chuck Klosterman

I keep saying the word ‘weird’ over and over again, but it’s the only way I can describe it.

– Chuck Klosterman

Chuck Klosterman

I’ve been asked about this constantly, and I compare it to how if you’re walking down the street and some schizo guy comes up to you and vomits on you: You wouldn’t be hurt by that, you’d just think it’s weird.

– Chuck Klosterman

Chuck Klosterman

The essays are very solipsistic and self-absorbed, I’m totally conscious of that. To me, book writing is fun, and I basically just write about things that are entertaining to myself.

– Chuck Klosterman

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