Scott McClanahan

It's weird. People want you to know that they write. They want you to know they're a musician, rather than making music…

— Scott McClanahan

I think maybe it's my personality. People don't like my face.

— Scott McClanahan

Fellini is a just a province kid. Rome exists for Fellini, not the other way around.

— Scott McClanahan

Most book things now (with a few exceptions) are just built around nice, safe books written for nice and safe book club…

— Scott McClanahan

“That night I dreamed about flying turtles and forest fires and fucking the earth...The next morning I awoke and I listened to…

— Scott McClanahan

"He Stopped Loving Her Today" a fascinating book about the making of a record. Really, to be honest, it has some of…

— Scott McClanahan

Samuel Clemens isn't Mark Twain. Mark Twain is Mark Twain. He doesn't become the thing until he creates himself.

— Scott McClanahan

You can write songs about your comic books and the girl or boy you sort of know and your mom and dad…

— Scott McClanahan

Everybody is so goddamn sure of themselves, it just makes you realize this is the curse of the modern world.

— Scott McClanahan

I'm sure we're going to find out one day that the brain is as worthless as the appendix.

— Scott McClanahan

I think all good art is outsider art.

— Scott McClanahan

“I never look at a painting and ask, "Is this painting fictional or non-fictional?" It's just a painting.”

— Scott McClanahan

[He Stopped Loving Her Today] is all about the experience of being alive and the thought process of consciousness, and then you…

— Scott McClanahan

There was a lot of tension between my dad and his mother and brothers. Sometimes when I was over there, I remember…

— Scott McClanahan

I just realized that I never look at a painting and ask, 'Is this painting fictional or non-fictional?' It’s just a painting.

— Scott McClanahan

Only cool people care about the origin stories of why they like something, and I'm not cool.

— Scott McClanahan

“Stories can actually rearrange continents if they're told long enough.”

— Scott McClanahan

New York exists for me. Not me for it.

— Scott McClanahan

We're artists. We cry out to be exploited on some level. Write a dissertation on my work. Write a biography about me.

— Scott McClanahan

“I couldn't believe it. Something wasn't right. I thought, "Batman smokes cigarettes." I couldn't believe it. "Batman smokes fucking cigarettes." I walked…

— Scott McClanahan