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… — Chuck Klosterman Copy Share Image
I'm good at being by myself. I guess if you're a writer you get used to that. — Chuck Klosterman Copy Share Image
Book writing is a little different because, in my case, my editor is a year younger than me and basically has the… — Chuck Klosterman Copy Share Image
“So this, it seems, is the key for authors who want to live forever: You need to write about important things without… — Chuck Klosterman Copy Share Image
Different critics go to different lengths to disagree with that sentiment, but ultimately, they're the person experiencing this art, and whatever judgment… — Chuck Klosterman Copy Share Image
The biggest hurdle to writing Fargo Rock City was that I couldn't afford a home computer - I had to get a… — Chuck Klosterman Copy Share Image
Anyone who claims to be good at lying is obviously bad at lying. Thus - as a writer myself - I cannot… — Chuck Klosterman Copy Share Image
When you're writing for newspapers you have all these parameters. You can't swear, you have to use short paragraphs, all that. If… — Chuck Klosterman Copy Share Image
The biggest problem in rock journalism is that often the writers main motivation is to become friends with the band. Theyre not… — Chuck Klosterman Copy Share Image
When someone writes a book review, they obviously already self-identify as a writer. I mean, they are. They're writers, they're critics, and… — Chuck Klosterman Copy Share Image
At a magazine, everything you do is edited by a bunch of people, by committee, and a lot of them are, were,… — Chuck Klosterman Copy Share Image
I think anyone who's not as good a writer as me is absolutely a hack, and I think anybody who's a slightly… — Chuck Klosterman Copy Share Image
If somebody asked for the first draft of something I'd written, it'd probably be pretty close to whatever got published. I get… — Chuck Klosterman Copy Share Image
A lot of people involved with celebrity journalism have interesting ideas about the people they want to write about going into the… — Chuck Klosterman Copy Share Image
It's far easier to write why something is terrible than why it's good. If you're reviewing a film and you decide "This… — Chuck Klosterman Copy Share Image
The amount of response I get, in both a negative and a positive context, is completely related to the amount of books… — Chuck Klosterman Copy Share Image
The thing that has always baffled me about people's perception of my writing is the sense that I'm a very controversial, opinionated,… — Chuck Klosterman Copy Share Image
The people who review my books, generally, are kind of youngish culture writers who aspire to write books. When someone writes a… — Chuck Klosterman Copy Share Image
The people who review my books, generally, are kind of youngish culture writers who aspire to write books, or write opinion pieces… — Chuck Klosterman Copy Share Image
And it's kind of my own fault too, in the sense that I've used my own life as a literary device so… — Chuck Klosterman Copy Share Image
“There’s one kind of writing that’s always easy: Picking out something obviously stupid and reiterating how stupid it obviously is. This is… — Chuck Klosterman Copy Share Image
“If you've spent any time trolling the blogosphere, you've probably noticed a peculiar literary trend: the pervasive habit of writers inexplicably placing… — Chuck Klosterman Copy Share Image
I feel sorry for people who have to edit me. Which is why book writing is by far the most enjoyable. Really… — Chuck Klosterman Copy Share Image
The essays are very solipsistic and self-absorbed, I'm totally conscious of that. To me, book writing is fun, and I basically just… — Chuck Klosterman Copy Share Image
The biggest problem in rock journalism is that often the writer's main motivation is to become friends with the band. They're not… — Chuck Klosterman Copy Share Image
If I basically view criticism as sort of an interesting form of writing about oneself, an interesting form of autobiography, then I… — Chuck Klosterman Copy Share Image
I write pretty fast, probably faster than most people. But I might think about something for six hours, then write it in… — Chuck Klosterman Copy Share Image
The amount of response I get, in both a negative and a positive context, is completely related to the amount of books… — Chuck Klosterman Copy Share Image
I get enjoyment out of writing, but I get absolutely no enjoyment out of rewriting, so I don't do much of it.… — Chuck Klosterman Copy Share Image
No woman will ever satisfy me. I know that now, and I would never try to deny it. But this is actually… — Chuck Klosterman Copy Share Image
When I was a film critic, the reason I kind of found it disenchanting was because the things that I wanted to… — Chuck Klosterman Copy Share Image
What's hard to do is describe why you like something. Because ultimately, the reason things move people is very amorphous. You can… — Chuck Klosterman Copy Share Image
I think people feel very comfortable reviewing the idea of me, as opposed to what I've actually written. Most of the time,… — Chuck Klosterman Copy Share Image
If I had to make a choice between only writing about sports or only writing about music, I would probably write about… — Chuck Klosterman Copy Share Image
The problem a lot of writers have is that they really, really enjoy people saying, "You're brilliant." They let their self-perception be… — Chuck Klosterman Copy Share Image
The only people who think the Internet is a calamity are people whose lives have been hurt by it; the only people who insist… — Chuck Klosterman Copy Share
“I suppose we'll never know what really happened in that room, though he did tell police, "I did it because I'm a dirty dog."… — Chuck Klosterman Copy Share
Do you know people who insist they like 'all kinds of music'? That actually means they like no kinds of music. — Chuck Klosterman Copy Share
Let's say Twitter existed during the Civil War. We would have a better understanding of people in the Confederacy who were against slavery, people… — Chuck Klosterman Copy Share
All my friends are rock critics, so we talk about rock criticism a lot. Because of that, in order to be part of the… — Chuck Klosterman Copy Share
If rain is God crying, I think God is drunk and his girlfriend just slept with Zeus. — Chuck Klosterman Copy Share
But no matter how many times we re-rank the presidents, in another 200 years, the top presidents will still be Washington and Lincoln and… — Chuck Klosterman Copy Share
Different critics go to different lengths to disagree with that sentiment, but ultimately, they're the person experiencing this art, and whatever judgment or taste… — Chuck Klosterman Copy Share
First, you must love yourself. And if you do that convincingly enough, others will love you too much. — Chuck Klosterman Copy Share
Anyone who claims to be good at lying is obviously bad at lying. Thus - as a writer myself - I cannot comment on… — Chuck Klosterman Copy Share
“I care about strangers when they're abstractions but feel almost nothing when they are literally in front of me. They seem like unnamed characters… — Chuck Klosterman Copy Share
“Toby Keith writes songs like 1993's "Should've Been a Cowboy," and what's compelling is that you can't deconstruct its message. "Should've Been a Cowboy"… — Chuck Klosterman Copy Share
Some say that time is like water that flows around us (like a stone in the river) and some say we flow with time… — Chuck Klosterman Copy Share
[On political correctness:] Any intended message mattered less than the received message, and every received message could be interpreted in whatever way the receiver… — Chuck Klosterman Copy Share
In baseball and sex, cliches are usually true: pitching beats hitting, and people always want to be loved by anyone who doesn't seem to… — Chuck Klosterman Copy Share
