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
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… — Chuck Klosterman Copy Share Image
Sometimes I think children are the worst people alive. And even if they're not- even if some smiling toddler is as pure… — Chuck Klosterman Copy Share Image
As an adult, the only people who care about horror movies are academics. No one loves to talk about horror films more… — Chuck Klosterman Copy Share Image
The reason that people in the intellectual community argue that football is dangerous is because there's now a large swath of society… — Chuck Klosterman Copy Share Image
People who talk about their dreams are actually trying to tell you things about themselves they’d never admit in normal conversation. — Chuck Klosterman Copy Share Image
You're trying to find new ideas in people. I always think to myself, what question I am least comfortable asking the person?… — Chuck Klosterman Copy Share Image
I honestly believe that people of my generation despise authenticity, mostly because they're all so envious of it. — 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 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
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
Let's say Twitter existed during the Civil War. We would have a better understanding of people in the Confederacy who were against… — Chuck Klosterman Copy Share Image
Whenever I can’t sleep, I like to lie in the darkness and pretend I’ve been assassinated. I’ve found this is the best… — Chuck Klosterman Copy Share Image
I was fortunate that I was at newspapers for eight years, where I wrote at least five or six stories every week.… — Chuck Klosterman Copy Share Image
Sure there's a percentage of people who are like, "It snowed in May. I don't believe in climate change." Well, that's crazy,… — Chuck Klosterman Copy Share Image
-- and it occurred to me that people who don't talk about themselves are limiting their own potential. They think they're guarding… — Chuck Klosterman Copy Share Image
Sometimes I think that the amount of time you live on earth is just an inverse reflection of how good you were… — 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
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
I'd ask people to keep in mind the idea that if you really understand something, it's even more important for you to… — Chuck Klosterman Copy Share Image
It has always been my belief that people are remembered for the sum of their accomplishments but defined by their singular failure. — Chuck Klosterman Copy Share Image
I also did an Ozzy piece for him, and so I got hired. Everything happened really fast. I can't give people advice,… — 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… — Chuck Klosterman Copy Share Image
We assume that all statements must be mild inversions of the truth, because it's too weird to imagine people who aren't casually… — Chuck Klosterman Copy Share Image
In baseball and sex, cliches are usually true: pitching beats hitting, and people always want to be loved by anyone who doesn't… — 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
People are more interested in reading bombastic ideas, whether they're positive or negative. Part of me has sort of lost interest in… — Chuck Klosterman Copy Share Image
Punk was perfect for lazy people, because anyone could do it--you didn't even need to know how to play your instrument, assuming… — 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
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
There's this belief that some things can be taken seriously in an intellectual way, while some things are only entertainment or only… — Chuck Klosterman Copy Share Image
I think one of the many interesting things about [Donald] Trump is that people in the media did not take him seriously… — Chuck Klosterman Copy Share Image
The mass media causes sexual misdirection: It prompts us to need something deeper than what we want. This is why Woody Allen… — Chuck Klosterman Copy Share Image
Pundits are always blaming TV for making people stupid, movies for desensitizing the world to violence, and rock music for making kids… — Chuck Klosterman Copy Share Image
“If someone breaks your heart, just punch them in the face. Oh sure, it seems obvious now, but you’d be amazed at… — Chuck Klosterman Copy Share Image
As more and more people recognize the level of violence involved and the consequences of CTE [chronic traumatic encephelopathy, a degenerative brain… — Chuck Klosterman Copy Share Image
People who are wrong during particularly important moments inevitably spend the rest of their lives trying to explain how their wrongness was… — Chuck Klosterman Copy Share Image
A lot of people have this strategy where if they have a hard question they wait to ask it to the end… — 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
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