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Everyone wants to write a book. Very few people are able to do it.

~John Hodgman

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When I listen to music - I don't particularly do it for fun all that much. It's not a big part of my life, and I'm not really on top of what's happening in the world of music in the way I was when I was a teenager.

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For a long time, I would write without music, because I thought it was distracting until I appreciated that it actually unlocks a certain unconscious productivity vault in my mind.

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In the '80s and '90s, I was really interested in, moved by, exhilarated by, and troubled by rap in all the ways a white person from Brookline, Massachusetts should be. That was music that was making trouble, and it was interesting and provocative trouble.

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As you know, the thing that I know the least about is the topic of sports.

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Many people, many girls have tried to teach me the rules to football. And you would think that it would get in my head that way, but I just don't understand it.

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I know nothing about letting go.

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Creating fake facts does require a measure of haphazard research, insofar as they need to not just be possible, but also interesting.

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It seems that every generation needs its public, tweedy, literary personality to sell its consumer electronics. To whatever degree I can live up to the Plimptonian legacy, I am humble and proud.

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More people have more access to more readers for less money than ever before in history. It means a lot of dross; but it means a lot of very talented people can find and nurture a readership in ways that were not possible twenty years ago. From a creative perspective, that is all that writing is about.

~John Hodgman

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Comedian

Born: June 3rd, 1971

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