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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.

~Chuck Klosterman

Topics: About Basically Book Conscious Entertaining Essays Fun Just Me Myself Self-Absorbed Things Totally Very Write Writing

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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

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

~Chuck Klosterman

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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.

~Chuck Klosterman

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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

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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

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Critic

Born: July 5th, 1972

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