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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
Devices

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Human beings are selfish by nature. Everything that happens to a child, you immediately grab your own child and say, I will never let that happen to you.
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It's hard always to say what it is one likes about a place, for me. I feel it.
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Do every stupid thing that makes you feel alive.
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If my songs are being listened to between any other songs, that is awesome, and I'm glad people are getting something out of them.
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The more I learn about stuff the more conscious I become of grave gaps in my knowledge.
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I seem to get the best work when I'm angry and depressed and alienated.
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I don't like to say, Oh, I don't like this kind of music. I like to listen to it and try to see what people who like it get out of it.
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Life is hard, you're tired, and there's disease. The strategy that works for children is to be delighted by the things that delight you.
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I just started writing stuff to kill time on summer evenings. This is why I'm always telling people who ask me what they need to do to succeed to give up, do something else.
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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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It's easy to follow national politics and weigh in on social media, but if I'm tweeting stuff about Chatham County, no one cares.
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While writing is a mystical process, it's also work. If you show up to work five days in a row, nobody's going to pat you on the back - everyone does that. Well, do that with your writing. Just show up. Be there for it. When you get an idea, write it down somewhere and then be a steward of that idea.
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Giving up and doing something else (nursing, for me) was exactly what eventually led me to making music that other people wanted to hear.
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