I don't write my own publicity materials, I just read 'em and give 'em the OK. — John Darnielle Copy Share Image
I am a person of high energy. That, and I sit down and I write when I get an idea - I… — John Darnielle Copy Share Image
I know it's a cliché to say I write for myself, but I write for myself. — John Darnielle Copy Share Image
I was 14 or 15 when I discovered poetry, and I pretty much stopped writing prose until Master of Reality. — John Darnielle Copy Share Image
Adulthood is interesting to adults. But I would never want to write about stuff I dont feel everybody can connect to. — John Darnielle Copy Share Image
I start writing, pull whatever images happen to occur to me and make up a story, instead of starting with details that… — John Darnielle Copy Share Image
I think taking too long to work on a record you sort of lose some of the feeling, so I write as… — John Darnielle Copy Share Image
I suspect by the time the Beatles were writing the White Album, they didn't go, "'I Wanna Hold Your Hand!' I wanna… — John Darnielle Copy Share Image
[Dennis] Etchison would write stories that were just punch lines at the end. You wouldn't realize something horrific was happening until the… — John Darnielle Copy Share Image
I just started writing stuff to kill time on summer evenings. This is why I'm always telling people who ask me what… — John Darnielle Copy Share Image
While writing is a mystical process, it's also work. If you show up to work five days in a row, nobody's going… — John Darnielle Copy Share Image
I'm finding things out about myself as a person - as a writer - as I write, and so are the people… — John Darnielle Copy Share Image
[Robert] Aikman would write horror stories that weren't gore, they weren't slashers, and they weren't monster stories either. He called them ghost… — John Darnielle Copy Share Image
I have a hunger for justice, but art is a place I've always enjoyed being able to be free - to live… — John Darnielle Copy Share Image
People don't tend to notice, but in the past 10 years especially there's been a lot of growth in how I write… — John Darnielle Copy Share Image
I don't write my own publicity materials, I just read 'em and give 'em the OK. — John Darnielle Copy Share
“But secret agents, like God, only give signs to their confidants. They are also very cruel and even unhappy at times. At any rate,… — John Darnielle Copy Share
“I am heavy in his arms, and I feel safe there, but I am lost, and I need constantly to be shoring up the… — John Darnielle Copy Share
The more I learn about stuff the more conscious I become of grave gaps in my knowledge. — John Darnielle Copy Share
If you get into a fight and somebody punches you, you get two feelings. One: That really hurts. Two: That relief in the realness… — John Darnielle Copy Share
When I was a kid, I was a big science fiction fan, but current horror books were harder to get your hands on. — John Darnielle Copy Share
It's impossible to be content all the time - you have to learn to be content in places where you're unhappy and owning your… — John Darnielle Copy Share
“It's in the nature of the landscape to change, and it's in the nature of people to help the process along...” — John Darnielle Copy Share
Everybody is in various states of needing to transcend something. I believe in mental health care, but when we call people "crazy," we exclude… — John Darnielle Copy Share
“But resiliency only means that a thing retains its shape. That it doesn’t break, or lose its ability to function. It doesn’t mean a… — John Darnielle Copy Share
“One thing I’ve learned is it’s better sometimes, in the weeds, to resist the temptation to stand up and follow the compass. *” — John Darnielle Copy Share
People always talk about good time rock and roll, Chuck Berry or whatever, like this liberating force for feeling good. But what I need… — John Darnielle Copy Share
It's hard always to say what it is one likes about a place, for me. I feel it. — John Darnielle Copy Share
“Another nagging little question lodged like a bit of grapeshot in his chest. It was nothing major, but the place where he stored them… — John Darnielle Copy Share
I'm not really a goal-oriented guy. I started doing the Mountain Goats just for the sheer hell of it. — John Darnielle Copy Share
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