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I'm kind of a hermit. Left to my own devices, I won't submerge myself in anything further afield than the driveway.

John Darnielle

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John Darnielle
Age: 57
Born: 1967
Born: March 16
Composer
Musician
Singer-Songwriter
Bloomington
Indiana
Left
Anything
Kind
Afield
Submerge
Hermit
Driveway
Hermits
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Books are like rocks. You hold one in your hand and look at it in various lights to get a sense of it, and then when you get a good angle, you throw it through a window to see what happens.
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There are stylists I really love. I'm a huge Joan Didion fan - if I wrote something that she might like, then I'd feel very proud. I want the action to move as quickly as it does in A Book of Common Prayer, where one thing bonks right into another very quickly.
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I grew up around some people whose parents toured a lot: tough on the marriage, tough on the kids.
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It's hard to stay positive when there's a lot of evil in the world.
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My son, who sees me almost every day of his life, will look at me and go, I know that dude! I like that dude! It's incredibly affirming.
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I seem to get the best work when I'm angry and depressed and alienated.
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I make up stories that take place in real space with real people. If I could convert this into a technique for experimental novels, I might really be onto something.
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If you're standing in the middle of a ring and you're playing the villain, and everyone is booing and throwing things at you, that's real.
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