Chuck Klosterman Quotes
28 Chuck Klosterman quotes:
"I keep saying the word "weird" over and over again, but it's the only way I can describe it."
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"The biggest problem in rock journalism is that often the writer's main motivation is to become friends with the band. They're not really journalists; they're people who want to be involved in rock and roll."
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"In Fargo, they say, well, that's 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."
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"It's just that what's important there is different there than what's important is here. Here, people care that you wrote a book or that you work in the media."
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"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."
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"It didn't seem remotely possible. I had no idea how people got those jobs, I didn't know what the steps were, it never even dawned on me. It seemed so outside the realm of possibility."
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"The essays are different because ultimately it's things I'm interested in, and I'm really just writing about myself and using those subjects as a prism."
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"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."
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